1-1  By:  Sims                                              S.B. No. 443
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 3, 1995; February 6, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  February 14, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
    1-5  9, Nays 0; February 14, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to designation of portions of Farm-to-Market Roads 503 and
    1-9  1929 as the Ray C. Stoker, Jr., Highway.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  The portions of Farm-to-Market Road 503 from
   1-12  Valera to Farm-to-Market Road 1929 and Farm-to-Market Road 1929
   1-13  from Farm-to-Market Road 503 to United States Highway 83 are
   1-14  designated the Ray C. Stoker, Jr., Highway.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas Department of Transportation shall
   1-16  design and construct markers to be placed along Farm-to-Market
   1-17  Roads 503 and 1929 indicating their designation as the Ray C.
   1-18  Stoker, Jr., Highway.
   1-19        (b)  The markers shall include the highway number and any
   1-20  other information that the department determines is appropriate.
   1-21        (c)  Markers shall be erected at each end of the highway and
   1-22  at intermediate sites that the department determines are
   1-23  appropriate.
   1-24        (d)  The department is responsible for repair and replacement
   1-25  of the markers and for maintenance of the grounds surrounding each
   1-26  marker.
   1-27        (e)  The department may accept grants and donations from
   1-28  individuals and other entities to assist in financing the
   1-29  construction and maintenance of the markers.
   1-30        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-35  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-36  passage, and it is so enacted.
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