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. 1-30 * * * * *