1-1     By:  Truan                                              S.B. No. 74
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed December 2, 1998; January 26, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 44 as the
 1-9     Cesar Chavez Memorial Highway.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,
1-12     is amended by adding Section 225.041 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 225.041.  Cesar Chavez Memorial Highway.  (a)  State
1-14     Highway 44 from the city limits of Corpus Christi to the city
1-15     limits of Robstown is designated as the Cesar Chavez Memorial
1-16     Highway.
1-17           (b)  The department shall design and construct memorial
1-18     markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the Cesar
1-19     Chavez Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate information.
1-20           (c)  The department shall erect a marker at each end of the
1-21     highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.
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