S.B. No. 304
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the designation of certain highways as the Presidential
    1-2  Corridor.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The portions of United States Highway 290 from
    1-5  Interstate Highway 35 to State Highway 21 and State Highway 21 from
    1-6  United States Highway 290 to State Highway 6 are designated as the
    1-7  Presidential Corridor, in recognition of that corridor's connection
    1-8  between the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin and the George
    1-9  Herbert Walker Bush Library in College Station.  The designation is
   1-10  in addition to any other designation.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas Department of Transportation shall
   1-12  design and construct appropriate markers to be placed along United
   1-13  States Highway 290 and State Highway 21 indicating their
   1-14  designation as the Presidential Corridor.
   1-15        (b)  The markers shall include the highway number and any
   1-16  other information the department determines is appropriate.
   1-17        (c)  Markers shall be erected at each end of the highway and
   1-18  at intermediate sites that the department determines are
   1-19  appropriate.
   1-20        (d)  The department is responsible for repair and replacement
   1-21  of the markers and for the maintenance of the grounds surrounding
   1-22  each marker.
   1-23        (e)  The department may accept grants and donations from
   1-24  individuals and other entities to assist in financing the
    2-1  construction and maintenance of the markers.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.