1-1           By:  Brown, et al.                               S.B. No. 553

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 1997; February 17, 1997,

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

 1-4     Relations, Trade, and Technology; March 6, 1997, reported favorably

 1-5     by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 6, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 35 as the

1-10     Stephen F. Austin Memorial Highway.

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.  STEPHEN F. AUSTIN MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.

1-15     (a)  State Highway 35 in Matagorda, Brazoria, and Harris counties

1-16     is designated as the Stephen F. Austin Memorial Highway.

1-17           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial

1-18     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the

1-19     Stephen F. Austin Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate

1-20     information.

1-21           (c)  The department shall erect a marker at each end of the

1-22     highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.

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