85R26182 JTS-D By: Raymond H.B. No. 2584 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2584: By: Morrison C.S.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 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.