Bill Text: TX SB357 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to outdoor advertising signs regulated by the Texas Department of Transportation.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB357 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB357-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Nichols S.B. No. 357
(In the Senate - Filed January 15, 2019; February 7, 2019,
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
March 7, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 7, 2019,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 357 By: Nichols

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to outdoor advertising signs regulated by the Texas
Department of Transportation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 391.038, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(b) A sign [described by Subsection (a)] may not be higher
than 42-1/2 [85] feet, excluding a cutout that extends above the
rectangular border of the sign, measured:
(1) from the grade level of the centerline of the
main-traveled way, not including a frontage road of a controlled
access highway, closest to the sign at a point perpendicular to the
sign location; or
(2) if the main-traveled way is below grade, from the
base of the sign structure.
(d) Subsection (b) does not apply to a sign that:
(1) was higher than 42-1/2 feet on March 1, 2017; and
(2) under an agreement with the department, is
authorized to be higher than 42-1/2 feet.
SECTION 2. Sections 391.038(a) and (c), Transportation
Code, are repealed.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to a
sign existing before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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