Bill Text: TX HB2584 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to regulation by the Texas Department of Transportation of the spacing along highways of outdoor advertising in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB2584 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2584-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Raymond | H.B. No. 2584 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2584: | |||
By: Morrison | C.S.H.B. No. 2584 |
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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. |