By Hilderbran H.B. No. 1544 74R5816 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the designation of a portion of United States Highway 1-3 290 as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. United States Highway 290 between Johnson City and 1-6 its intersection with Interstate Highway 10 between Mountain Home 1-7 and Segovia is designated as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway. 1-8 SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Department of Transportation shall 1-9 design and construct markers to be placed along United States 1-10 Highway 290 indicating its designation as the Pearl Harbor Memorial 1-11 Highway. 1-12 (b) The markers shall include the highway number and any 1-13 other information that the department determines is appropriate. 1-14 (c) Markers shall be erected at each end of the highway and 1-15 at intermediate sites that the department determines are 1-16 appropriate. 1-17 (d) The department is responsible for repair and replacement 1-18 of the markers and for maintenance of the grounds surrounding each 1-19 marker. 1-20 (e) The department may accept grants and donations from 1-21 individuals and other entities to assist in financing the 1-22 construction and maintenance of the markers. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.