By West                                               S.B. No. 1129
       74R6657 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the designation of a portion of certain highways in
    1-3  Dallas County as the S. M. Wright Freeway.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The portions of United States Highway 175 in
    1-6  Dallas County between Interstate Highway 45 and State Highway 310
    1-7  and State Highway 310 between United States Highway 175 and State
    1-8  Loop 12 are designated as the S. M. Wright Freeway in recognition
    1-9  of that individual's outstanding spiritual and civic contributions
   1-10  to the City of Dallas and the State of Texas.  The designation is
   1-11  in addition to any other designation.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas Department of Transportation shall
   1-13  design and construct memorial markers to be placed along United
   1-14  States Highway 175 and State Highway 310 indicating their
   1-15  designation as the S. M. Wright Freeway.
   1-16        (b)  The markers shall include the highway number and any
   1-17  other information that the department determines is appropriate.
   1-18        (c)  Markers shall be erected at each end of the highway and
   1-19  at intermediate sites that the department determines are
   1-20  appropriate.
   1-21        (d)  The department is responsible for repair and replacement
   1-22  of the markers and for maintenance of the grounds surrounding each
   1-23  marker.
   1-24        (e)  The department may accept grants and donations from
    2-1  individuals and other entities to assist in financing the
    2-2  construction and maintenance of the markers.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.