Amend CSHB 1831 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered section:    
	SECTION ____.  Sec. 418.016.  SUSPENSION OF PROCEDURAL LAWS 
AND RULES.       
	(a)  The governor may suspend the provisions of any 
regulatory statute prescribing the procedures for conduct of state 
business or the orders or rules of a state agency if strict 
compliance with the provisions, orders, or rules would in any way 
prevent, hinder, or delay necessary action in coping with a 
disaster.
	(b)  Upon declaration of a state of disaster, enforcement of 
the regulation of on-premise outdoor signs under Subchapter A, 
Chapter 216, Local Government Code, by a municipality that is 
located in a county within, or that is located in a county adjacent 
to a county within, the disaster area specified by the declaration 
is suspended to allow licensed or admitted insurance carriers or 
licensed agents acting on behalf of insurance carriers to erect 
temporary claims service signage for not more than 60 days or until 
the end of the declaration of disaster, whichever is earlier.
	(c)  A temporary claims service sign shall not;                         
		(1)  be larger than forty square feet in size, and;                    
		(2)  be more than five feet in height, and;                            
		(3)  be placed in the right of way.                                    
		(4)  At the end of the 30 days or the end of the 
declaration of disaster, whichever is earlier, the insurance 
carrier or its licensed agents must remove the temporary claims 
service signage that was erected.