By:  Madla, Ellis, Luna, West                 S.B. No. 120

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the designation of a portion of United States Highway

 1-2     87 in Bexar County as the Bishop Ernest T. Dixon, Jr., Memorial

 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.  THE BISHOP ERNEST T. DIXON, JR., MEMORIAL

 1-8     PARKWAY.  (a)  United States Highway 87 from its intersection with

 1-9     Interstate Highway 410 in Bexar County to its intersection with

1-10     Loop 1604 is designated as the Bishop Ernest T. Dixon, Jr.,

1-11     Memorial Parkway.

1-12           (b)  The department shall design  and construct memorial

1-13     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the

1-14     Bishop Ernest T. Dixon, Jr., Memorial Parkway, and any other

1-15     appropriate information.

1-16           (c)  The department shall erect a memorial marker at each end

1-17     of the parkway and at intermediate sites along the parkway that the

1-18     department determines are appropriate.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.