By: Keffer (Senate Sponsor - Deuell) H.B. No. 2462

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2009; May 1, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; May 23, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 23, 2009, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2462 By: Shapiro

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the authority of a county to clarify the existence of a public interest in certain roads.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 258.007, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 258.007. APPLICATION [EXPIRATION] OF CHAPTER. This chapter applies only to a county that initiates or completes compliance with the provisions of this chapter before [expires] September 1, 2011 [2009].

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2009.

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