By Madla                                         S.B. No. 120

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the designation of a portion of United States Highway

 1-3     87 in Bexar County as the Bishop Ernest T. Dixon, Jr., 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., PARKWAY.  (a)

 1-8     United States Highway 87 from its intersection with Interstate

 1-9     Highway 410 in Bexar County to its intersection with Loop 1604 is

1-10     designated as the Bishop Ernest T. Dixon, Jr., Parkway.

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

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

1-13     Bishop Ernest T.  Dixon, Jr., Parkway, and any other appropriate

1-14     information.

1-15           (c)  The department shall erect a memorial marker at each end

1-16     of the parkway and at intermediate sites along the parkway that the

1-17     department determines are appropriate.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.