1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 235 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 16, 1997; January 21, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on International 1-4 Relations, Trade, and Technology; February 6, 1997, reported 1-5 favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; February 6, 1997, 1-6 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. 1-31 * * * * *