1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the designation of the interchange at U.S. Highways 83 1-3 and 84 and Loop 322 in Abilene as the Sam Waldrop Highway 1-4 Interchange. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 225.041 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 225.041. SAM WALDROP HIGHWAY INTERCHANGE. (a) The 1-9 interchange of U.S. Highways 83 and 84 and Loop 322 in Abilene is 1-10 designated as the Sam Waldrop Highway Interchange. 1-11 (b) The department shall design and construct memorial 1-12 markers indicating the interchange number, the designation as the 1-13 Sam Waldrop Interchange, and any other appropriate information. 1-14 (c) The department shall erect a marker at each end of the 1-15 interchange and at appropriate intermediate sites along the 1-16 interchange. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2819 was passed by the House on May 8, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2819 was passed by the Senate on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor