1-1     By:  Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                 H.B. No. 3478

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;

 1-3     April 23, 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 6, Nays 1;

 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 a portion of State Highway 35 as the

1-10     John B.  Coleman Memorial Highway.

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 225.035 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 225.035.  JOHN B. COLEMAN MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.  (a)  State

1-15     Highway 35 in Harris County is designated as the John B. Coleman

1-16     Memorial Highway.

1-17           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial

1-18     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the John

1-19     B. Coleman Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate information.

1-20           (c)  The department shall erect a marker at each end of the

1-21     highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.

1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.

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