1-1  By:  Turner, Barrientos, Armbrister                    S.B. No. 304
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 24, 1995; January 25, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  February 6, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
    1-5  10, Nays 0; February 6, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the designation of certain highways as the Presidential
    1-9  Corridor.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  The portions of United States Highway 290 from
   1-12  Interstate Highway 35 to State Highway 21 and State Highway 21 from
   1-13  United States Highway 290 to State Highway 6 are designated as the
   1-14  Presidential Corridor, in recognition of that corridor's connection
   1-15  between the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin and the George
   1-16  Herbert Walker Bush Library in College Station.  The designation is
   1-17  in addition to any other designation.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas Department of Transportation shall
   1-19  design and construct appropriate markers to be placed along United
   1-20  States Highway 290 and State Highway 21 indicating their
   1-21  designation as the Presidential Corridor.
   1-22        (b)  The markers shall include the highway number and any
   1-23  other information the department determines is appropriate.
   1-24        (c)  Markers shall be erected at each end of the highway and
   1-25  at intermediate sites that the department determines are
   1-26  appropriate.
   1-27        (d)  The department is responsible for repair and replacement
   1-28  of the markers and for the maintenance of the grounds surrounding
   1-29  each marker.
   1-30        (e)  The department may accept grants and donations from
   1-31  individuals and other entities to assist in financing the
   1-32  construction and maintenance of the markers.
   1-33        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-34  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-35  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-36  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-37  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-38  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-39  passage, and it is so enacted.
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