85R26182 JTS-D
By: Raymond H.B. No. 2584
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2584:
By: Morrison C.S.H.B. No. 2584
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to regulation by the Texas Department of Transportation of
the spacing along highways of outdoor advertising in certain
municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. 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.
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, 2017.