1-1     By:  Davis (Senate Sponsor - West)                    H.B. No. 1299

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;

 1-3     April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     International Relations, Trade, and Technology; May 1, 1997,

 1-5     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;

 1-6     May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the designation of Spur 408 in Dallas County as Patriot

1-10     Parkway.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,

1-13     is amended by adding Section 225.034 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 225.034.  PATRIOT PARKWAY.  (a)  To commemorate the

1-15     achievements of veterans buried at the national cemetery in Dallas

1-16     County, Spur 408 in Dallas County from Interstate Highway 20 to

1-17     Loop 12 is designated as Patriot Parkway.

1-18           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial

1-19     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as Patriot

1-20     Parkway, and any other appropriate information.

1-21           (c)  The department shall erect a memorial marker at each end

1-22     of the memorial highway and at intermediate sites along the highway

1-23     that the department determines are appropriate.

1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.

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