AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the designation of State Highway 6 as the Texas Korean

 1-2     War Veterans Memorial Highway.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,

 1-5     is amended by adding Section 225.034 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 225.034.  TEXAS KOREAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.

 1-7     (a)  State Highway 6 from the Red River in Hardeman County to its

 1-8     intersection with Interstate Highway 45 in Galveston County is

 1-9     designated as the Texas Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway.

1-10           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial

1-11     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the Texas

1-12     Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate

1-13     information.

1-14           (c)  The department shall erect a marker at each end of the

1-15     highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 463 passed the Senate on

         March 4, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 463 passed the House on

         April 18, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 0, two

         present not voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor