By: Lavender H.B. No. 3422
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to donations of landscape materials and services to the
  Texas Department of Transportation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 392, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 392.003 to read as follows:
         Sec. 392.003.  DONATIONS FOR LANDSCAPE INSTALLATION OR
  MAINTENANCE. As authorized by Section 201.206, the commission by
  rule shall establish a program under which the department may
  accept from any source, including an individual or a private
  business or organization, donations of landscape materials for
  state highways. The program shall also provide for the department
  to enter an agreement with an individual or private business or
  organization for the individual or entity to provide, at no cost to
  the department, services for the installation or maintenance of
  landscaping on state highways.
         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, 2013.