By: Sims S.B. No. 443 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to designation of portions of Farm-to-Market Roads 503 and 1-2 1929 as the Ray C. Stoker, Jr., Highway. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. The portions of Farm-to-Market Road 503 from 1-5 Valera to Farm-to-Market Road 1929 and Farm-to-Market Road 1929 1-6 from Farm-to-Market Road 503 to United States Highway 83 are 1-7 designated the Ray C. Stoker, Jr., Highway. 1-8 SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Department of Transportation shall 1-9 design and construct markers to be placed along Farm-to-Market 1-10 Roads 503 and 1929 indicating their designation as the Ray C. 1-11 Stoker, Jr., Highway. 1-12 (b) The markers shall include the highway number and any 1-13 other information that the department determines is appropriate. 1-14 (c) Markers shall be erected at each end of the highway and 1-15 at intermediate sites that the department determines are 1-16 appropriate. 1-17 (d) The department is responsible for repair and replacement 1-18 of the markers and for maintenance of the grounds surrounding each 1-19 marker. 1-20 (e) The department may accept grants and donations from 1-21 individuals and other entities to assist in financing the 1-22 construction and maintenance of the markers. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.