By: Lavender (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 3422
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013;
May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 16, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
May 16, 2013, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3422 By: Paxton
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. 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, as authorized by Section
201.206. The program may provide for the department to enter into
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.
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