1-1  By:  Hilderbran (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)          H.B. No. 1544
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995;
    1-3  May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the designation of a portion of United States Highway
    1-9  290 as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1. United States Highway 290 between Johnson City and
   1-12  its intersection with Interstate Highway 10 between Mountain Home
   1-13  and Segovia is designated as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas Department of Transportation shall
   1-15  design and construct markers to be placed along United States
   1-16  Highway 290 indicating its designation as the Pearl Harbor Memorial
   1-17  Highway.
   1-18        (b)  The markers shall include the highway number and any
   1-19  other information that the department determines is appropriate.
   1-20        (c)  Markers shall be erected at each end of the highway and
   1-21  at intermediate sites that the department determines are
   1-22  appropriate.
   1-23        (d)  The department is responsible for repair and replacement
   1-24  of the markers and for maintenance of the grounds surrounding each
   1-25  marker.
   1-26        (e)  The department may accept grants and donations from
   1-27  individuals and other entities to assist in financing the
   1-28  construction and maintenance of the markers.
   1-29        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-30  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-31  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-32  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-33  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-34  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-35  passage, and it is so enacted.
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