1-1     By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1849

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on International Relations,

 1-4     Trade, and Technology; April 17, 1997, reported favorably by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the designation of a portion of United States Highway

 1-9     281 in Bexar County as the Congressman Frank M. Tejeda Memorial

1-10     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.  CONGRESSMAN FRANK M. TEJEDA MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.

1-15     (a)  United States Highway 281 from its intersection with Loop 410

1-16     in Bexar County to its intersection with the Atascosa-Bexar County

1-17     Line is designated as the Congressman Frank M. Tejeda Memorial

1-18     Highway.

1-19           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial

1-20     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the

1-21     Congressman Frank M. Tejeda Memorial Highway, and any other

1-22     appropriate information.

1-23           (c)  The department shall erect a memorial marker at each end

1-24     of the memorial highway and at intermediate sites along the highway

1-25     that the department determines are appropriate.

1-26           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-31     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-32     passage, and it is so enacted.

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