By: Turner, Barrientos S.B. No. 304 Armbrister A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.