By: Thibaut H.B. No. 3082
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3082By: Nichols By: Nichols
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2009;
May 6, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation and Homeland Security; May 19, 2009, reported
adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the obstruction of streets by certain municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 311.001, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or (b) or Section
311.007, before a municipality with a population of 1.9 million or
more may install traffic calming measures within the municipality,
the governing body of the municipality must:
(1) publish standards and criteria, which must include
sufficient notice to allow the governing body to receive and
consider public comments from residents within one-half mile of the
proposed traffic calming measure;
(2) on request of affected residents, schedule and
hold a public meeting before implementation of the measure; and
(3) if the measure involves the closure of a street to
motor vehicular traffic, before the closure:
(A) hold a public hearing on the issue of the
closure; and
(B) approve the closure by a majority vote.
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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