By Ratliff                                             S.B. No. 595

         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 595:

         By Hightower                                       C.S.S.B. No. 595

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to Cooper State Park.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 22, Texas Parks and Wildlife Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Subchapter U to read as follows:

 1-6                       Subchapter U. COOPER STATE PARK

 1-7           Sec. 22.281.  JURISDICTION.  Cooper State Park, located in

 1-8     Delta and Hopkins counties, is under the jurisdiction of the

 1-9     department.

1-10           Sec. 22.282.  SIGNS.  The Texas Department of Transportation

1-11     may not erect a sign that refers to:

1-12                 (1)  Cooper State Park by a name other than Cooper

1-13     State Park; or

1-14                 (2)  the lake at Cooper State Park without also making

1-15     reference to Cooper State Park.

1-16           Sec. 22.283.  PUBLICATIONS.  The state may not refer to the

1-17     lake at Cooper State Park without also making reference to Cooper

1-18     State Park in any state publication, including a map or brochure.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.