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Amend CSSB 312 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter B, Chapter 391, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 391.038 to read as follows:
Sec. 391.038. SPACING REQUIREMENTS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) In this section, "electronic sign" means a sign that changes its message or copy by programmable electronic or mechanical processes.
(b) The department, in regulating outdoor advertising located in the corporate boundaries of a municipality with a population of more than 200,000 located in a county on the Texas-Mexico border with a population of less than 300,000, may not require an electronic sign owned by the municipality to be more than 500 feet from another sign.