By: Duncan S.B. No. 682
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the designated route of La Entrada al Pacifico
1-2 Corridor.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 225.034, Transportation Code, as added by
1-5 Section 1, Chapter 595, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular
1-6 Session, 1997, is redesignated as Section 225.040 and amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 225.040 [225.034]. LA ENTRADA AL PACIFICO CORRIDOR.
1-9 (a) The following highways and any portion of a highway in a
1-10 corridor on two miles of either side of the center line of the
1-11 highway are designated as [the future route of] La Entrada al
1-12 Pacifico Corridor:
1-13 (1) State Highway 349 from Lamesa to the point on that
1-14 highway that is closest to 32 degrees, 7 minutes, north latitude,
1-15 by 102 degrees, 6 minutes, west longitude [Midland];
1-16 (2) the segment or any roadway extending from the
1-17 point described by Subdivision (1) to the point on Farm-to-Market
1-18 Road 1788 closest to 32 degrees, 0 minutes, north latitude, by 102
1-19 degrees, 16 minutes, west longitude;
1-20 (3) Farm-to-Market Road 1788 from the point described
1-21 by Subdivision (2) to its intersection with Interstate Highway 20
1-22 [from Midland to Odessa];
1-23 (4) Interstate Highway 20 from its intersection with
1-24 Farm-to-Market Road 1788 to its intersection with United States
2-1 Highway 385;
2-2 (5) [(3)] United States Highway 385 from Odessa to
2-3 Fort Stockton, including those portions that parallel United States
2-4 Highway 67 and Interstate Highway 10; and
2-5 (6) [(4)] United States Highway 67 from Fort Stockton
2-6 to Presidio, including those portions that parallel Interstate
2-7 Highway 10 and United States Highway 90.
2-8 (b) The department shall design and construct commemorative
2-9 markers to be placed along the corridor indicating the highway
2-10 number, its designation as the future route of La Entrada al
2-11 Pacifico Corridor, and any other appropriate information.
2-12 (c) The department shall erect a commemorative marker at
2-13 each end of the memorial highway and at intermediate sites along
2-14 the highway that the department determines are appropriate.
2-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-21 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-22 Amend SB 682 by Duncan by adding Sec. 225.045 to read as
2-23 follows:
2-24 Sec. 225.045. SERGEANT JOE PARKS, JR. MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a)
2-25 Farm-to-Market Road 457, from mile marker #648 to #677, located in
2-26 the County of Matagorda, is now named Sergeant Joe Parks, Jr.
3-1 Memorial Highway.
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