By:  Truan                                              S.B. No. 74
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 44 as the
 1-2     Cesar Chavez Memorial Highway.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,
 1-5     is amended by adding Section 225.041 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 225.041.  Cesar Chavez Memorial Highway.  (a)  State
 1-7     Highway 44 in Nueces County and Jim Wells County outside the city
 1-8     limits  of Corpus Christi and exclusive of the segments of State
 1-9     Highway 44 that lie within the city limits of Robstown, Banquete,
1-10     Agua Dulce, and Alice is designated as the Cesar Chavez Memorial
1-11     Highway.
1-12           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial
1-13     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the Cesar
1-14     Chavez Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate information.
1-15           (c)  The department shall erect a marker at each end of the
1-16     highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.
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.