1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 595 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 1997; February 18, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 April 7, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, 1-5 Nays 0; April 7, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to Cooper Lake State Park. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Chapter 22, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended 1-11 by adding Subchapter U to read as follows: 1-12 SUBCHAPTER U. COOPER LAKE STATE PARK 1-13 Sec. 22.281. JURISDICTION. Cooper Lake State Park, located 1-14 in Delta and Hopkins counties, is under the jurisdiction of the 1-15 department. 1-16 Sec. 22.282. SIGNS. The Texas Department of Transportation 1-17 may not erect a sign that refers to: 1-18 (1) Cooper Lake State Park by a name other than Cooper 1-19 Lake State Park; or 1-20 (2) the lake at Cooper Lake State Park by a name other 1-21 than Cooper Lake. 1-22 Sec. 22.283. PUBLICATIONS. The state may not refer to 1-23 Cooper Lake State Park by a name other than Cooper Lake State Park 1-24 in any state publication, including a map or brochure. 1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-31 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-32 * * * * *