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. 1-40 * * * * *