83R7110 MMC-D By: Bell H.B. No. 1384 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the authority of a county road department to accept donations. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 252, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 252.314 to read as follows: Sec. 252.314. DONATIONS. (a) A commissioners court or the county road department may accept donations of labor, money, or other property to aid in the building or maintaining of roads in the county. (b) A county operating under the county road department system on September 1, 2013, may use the authority granted under this section without holding a new election under Section 252.301. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.