By:  Brown, Gallegos                                   S.B. No. 553

              Patterson, Armbrister

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 35 as the

 1-2     Stephen F. Austin 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.  STEPHEN F. AUSTIN MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.

 1-7     (a)  State Highway 35 in Matagorda, Brazoria, and Harris counties

 1-8     is designated as the Stephen F. Austin Memorial Highway.

 1-9           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial

1-10     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the

1-11     Stephen F. Austin Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate

1-12     information.

1-13           (c)  The department shall erect a marker at each end of the

1-14     highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.

1-22                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1

1-23           Amend S.B. 553 as follows:

 2-1           In Section 1, on Page 1, line 7, replace "Matagorda,

 2-2     Brazoria, and Harris" with "Matagorda and Brazoria".

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