1-1           By:  Brown, et al.                               S.B. No. 463

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1997; February 10, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on International

 1-4     Relations, Trade, and Technology; February 13, 1997, rereferred to

 1-5     Committee on Veteran Affairs and Military Installations;

 1-6     February 20, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas

 1-7     4, Nays 0; February 20, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the designation of State Highway 6 as the Texas Korean

1-11     War Veterans Memorial Highway.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,

1-14     is amended by adding Section 225.034 to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 225.034.  TEXAS KOREAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.

1-16     (a)  State Highway 6 from the Red River in Hardeman County to its

1-17     intersection with Interstate Highway 45 in Galveston County is

1-18     designated as the Texas Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway.

1-19           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial

1-20     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the Texas

1-21     Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate

1-22     information.

1-23           (c)  The department shall erect a marker at each end of the

1-24     highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.

1-25           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.

1-32                                  * * * * *