76R10064 WP-F                           
         By Hunter                                             H.B. No. 2819
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2819:
         By Alexander                                      C.S.H.B. No. 2819
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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.