Amend HB 1521 by striking Section 2 (effective date 
provisions) and substituting the following:
	SECTION 2. APPLICABILITY. A landowner to whom a notice is 
mailed by the county clerk as provided by Section 3(b) of this Act 
may exclude the landowner's property from the application of 
Section 1 of this Act by notifying the Texas Department of 
Transportation in writing, by certified mail. In order for the 
landowner's property to be excluded from the application of Section 
1 of this Act, the landowner's notice must be received by the Texas 
Department of Transportation within one year of the date the Texas 
Department of Transportation receives notification from all 
appropriate county clerks that notices were mailed to landowners as 
provided in Section 3(b) of this Act. The exclusion of the landowner 
from the application of Section 1 of this Act becomes effective on 
the date the landowner's notice is received by the Texas Department 
of Transportation.
	SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. (a) Except as otherwise provided 
by this section, this Act takes effect on September 1, 2007.
	(b) Before Section 1 of this Act can become effective, the 
county clerk of the county or counties in which a segment of public 
road affected by this Act is located must send a written notice, by 
certified mail, to each landowner who owns real property, according 
to the most recent certified tax appraisal roll, along a segment of 
public road affected by this Act. The notice shall also be published 
in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in 
which a segment of public road affected by this Act is located. The 
notice shall identify the segment of public road affected by this 
Act and state that the landowner's future right to lease the 
landowner's property for the purpose of erecting an off-premise 
sign will be terminated unless the landowner notifies the Texas 
Department of Transportation that the landowner plans to exclude 
the landowner's property from the application of the Act. The 
notice must be sent to landowners and published by the appropriate 
county clerk or clerks in accordance with this subsection within 45 
days of the effective date of this Act. The appropriate county clerk 
or clerks shall notify the Texas Department of Transportation in 
writing, by certified mail, when the notice is mailed to the 
landowners and published in accordance with this subsection. The 
notice provided to the Texas Department of Transportation by a 
county clerk is public information for the purposes of Chapter 552, 
Government Code, and must include the following information:
		(1) the affidavit of the publisher of the newspaper 
notice indicating the date the notice was published, accompanied by 
a printed copy of the notice as published; and
		(2) the affidavit of the county clerk certifying the 
date notice was mailed to the landowners, accompanied by a copy of 
the notice and a list of the landowners to whom the notice was 
mailed.
	(c) Section 1 of this Act takes effect on the 91st day after 
the Texas Department of Transportation receives notification from 
all appropriate county clerks as provided in Subsection (b).