By Lindsay                                              S.B. No. 87
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 249 as
 1-3     the Compaq Expressway.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 225.041 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 225.041.  COMPAQ EXPRESSWAY.  (a)  State Highway 249
 1-8     from Louetta Road to Beltway 8 in Harris County is designated as
 1-9     the Compaq Expressway.
1-10           (b)  The department shall design and construct markers
1-11     indicating the highway number, the designation as the Compaq
1-12     Expressway, and any other appropriate information.
1-13           (c)  The department shall erect a marker at each end of the
1-14     highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.