1-1     By:  Hunter (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)                H.B. No. 2819
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the designation of the interchange at U.S. Highways 83
 1-9     and 84 and Loop 322 in Abilene as the Sam Waldrop Highway
1-10     Interchange.
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 225.041 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 225.041.  SAM WALDROP HIGHWAY INTERCHANGE.  (a)  The
1-15     interchange of U.S. Highways 83 and 84 and Loop 322 in Abilene is
1-16     designated as the Sam  Waldrop Highway Interchange.
1-17           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial
1-18     markers indicating the interchange number, the designation as the
1-19     Sam Waldrop Interchange, and any other appropriate information.
1-20           (c)  The department shall erect a marker at each end of the
1-21     interchange and at appropriate intermediate sites along the
1-22     interchange.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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