Bill Text: TX HB3422 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 3422 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to donations of landscape materials and services to the Texas Department of Transportation.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3422 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3422-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 3422




	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.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3422 was passed by the House on May 2,
	2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 3422 on May 24, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 2,
	2 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 3422 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
	0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor