BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 2462

By: Keffer

Transportation

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Current law authorizes the commissioners court of a county to adopt a proposed county road map and include in the map all roads in which the county claims a public interest. The law providing this authorization is set to expire on September 1, 2009. Several commissioners courts have initiated the adoption process, but will not have completed that process by the sunset date of the statute.

C.S.H.B. 2462 repeals the expiration of provisions authorizing a county to clarify the existence of a public interest in a road by the adoption of a county road map.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 2462 amends the Transportation Code to repeal the September 1, 2009, expiration of provisions authorizing a county to clarify the existence of a public interest in a road by the adoption of a county road map.

C.S.H.B. 2462 repeals Section 258.007, Transportation Code.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the act does not receive the necessary vote, the act takes effect August 31, 2009.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 2462 differs from the original by making the bill's provision take effect on passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, on August 31, 2009, whereas the original made the bill's provision take effect on September 1, 2009.