85R11284 JTS-D By: Raymond 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 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 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, may not consider for the purposes of spacing distances an electronic sign owned by a political subdivision. 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.