By Ratliff                                       S.B. No. 595

      75R4557 GJH-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to Cooper Lake State Park.

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

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

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

 1-6                    SUBCHAPTER U.  COOPER LAKE STATE PARK

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

 1-8     in 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 Lake State Park by a name other than Cooper

1-13     Lake State  Park; or

1-14                 (2)  the lake at Cooper Lake State Park by a name other

1-15     than Cooper Lake.

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

1-17     Cooper Lake State Park by a name other than Cooper Lake State Park

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

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.