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.
 3-2                                                                    Uher