1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the designation of Spur 408 in Dallas County as Patriot

 1-3     Parkway.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 225.034 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 225.034.  PATRIOT PARKWAY.  (a)  To commemorate the

 1-8     achievements of veterans buried at the national cemetery in Dallas

 1-9     County, Spur 408 in Dallas County from Interstate Highway 20 to

1-10     Loop 12 is designated as Patriot Parkway.

1-11           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial

1-12     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as Patriot

1-13     Parkway, and any other appropriate information.

1-14           (c)  The department shall erect a memorial marker at each end

1-15     of the memorial highway and at intermediate sites along the highway

1-16     that the department determines are appropriate.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1299 was passed by the House on April

         11, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 132, Nays 0, 2 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1299 was passed by the Senate on May

         12, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor