1-1 By: Craddick, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 2115 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 15, 1997, 1-5 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; 1-6 May 15, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to the designation of certain highways as the future route 1-10 of La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor. 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. LA ENTRADA AL PACIFICO CORRIDOR. (a) The 1-15 following highways are designated as the future route of La Entrada 1-16 al Pacifico Corridor: 1-17 (1) State Highway 349 from Lamesa to Midland; 1-18 (2) Interstate Highway 20 from Midland to Odessa; 1-19 (3) United States Highway 385 from Odessa to Fort 1-20 Stockton, including those portions that parallel United States 1-21 Highway 67 and Interstate Highway 10; and 1-22 (4) United States Highway 67 from Fort Stockton to 1-23 Presidio, including those portions that parallel Interstate Highway 1-24 10 and United States Highway 90. 1-25 (b) The department shall design and construct commemorative 1-26 markers to be placed along the corridor indicating the highway 1-27 number, its designation as the future route of La Entrada al 1-28 Pacifico Corridor, and any other appropriate information. 1-29 (c) The department shall erect a commemorative marker at 1-30 each end of the memorial highway and at intermediate sites along 1-31 the highway that the department determines are appropriate. 1-32 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-38 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-39 * * * * *