By:  Ratliff                                           S.B. No. 595

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to Cooper Lake State Park.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Chapter 22, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended

 1-4     by adding Subchapter U to read as follows:

 1-5                    SUBCHAPTER U.  COOPER LAKE STATE PARK

 1-6           Sec. 22.281.  JURISDICTION. Cooper Lake State Park, located

 1-7     in Delta and Hopkins counties, is under the jurisdiction of the

 1-8     department.

 1-9           Sec. 22.282.  SIGNS.  The Texas Department of Transportation

1-10     may not erect a sign that refers to:

1-11                 (1)  Cooper Lake State Park by a name other than Cooper

1-12     Lake State Park; or

1-13                 (2)  the lake at Cooper Lake State Park by a name other

1-14     than Cooper Lake.

1-15           Sec. 22.283.  PUBLICATIONS.  The state may not refer to

1-16     Cooper Lake State Park by a name other than Cooper Lake State Park

1-17     in any state publication, including a map or brochure.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.