Bill Text: TX HB4165 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the placement of certain highway signs that promote businesses or provide other information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Left pending in committee [HB4165 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB4165-Introduced.html
  85R14005 JXC-D
 
  By: Howard H.B. No. 4165
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the placement of certain highway signs that promote
  businesses or provide other information.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 391.092, Transportation Code, is amended
  by adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows:
         (d-1)  Rules adopted under this section may not allow the
  placement of a specific information logo sign, major shopping area
  guide sign, or tourist-oriented directional sign at a location that
  is:
               (1)  in an area that is subject to a municipal ordinance
  that designates the area as a "Hill Country Scenic Roadway
  Corridor"; and
               (2)  along a highway that has an annual average daily
  traffic volume of fewer than 100,000 vehicles.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a sign for which the Texas Department of Transportation enters
  into a contract or agreement or renews a contract or agreement on or
  after the effective date of this Act. A contract or agreement
  entered into or renewed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect immediately before that date, and that
  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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