1-1     By:  Duncan                                            S.B. No. 682
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1999; February 25, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the designated route of La Entrada al Pacifico
 1-9     Corridor.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 225.034, Transportation Code, as added by
1-12     Section 1, Chapter 595, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular
1-13     Session, 1997, is redesignated as Section 225.040 and amended to
1-14     read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 225.040 [225.034].  LA ENTRADA AL PACIFICO CORRIDOR.
1-16     (a)  The following highways and any portion of a highway in a
1-17     corridor on two miles of either side of the center line of the
1-18     highway are designated as [the future route of] La Entrada al
1-19     Pacifico Corridor:
1-20                 (1)  State Highway 349 from Lamesa to the point on that
1-21     highway that is closest to 32 degrees, 7 minutes, north latitude,
1-22     by 102 degrees, 6 minutes, west longitude [Midland];
1-23                 (2)  the segment or any roadway extending from the
1-24     point described by Subdivision (1) to the point on Farm-to-Market
1-25     Road 1788 closest to 32 degrees, 0 minutes, north latitude, by  102
1-26     degrees, 16 minutes, west longitude;
1-27                 (3)  Farm-to-Market Road 1788 from the point described
1-28     by Subdivision (2) to its intersection with Interstate Highway 20
1-29     [from Midland to Odessa];
1-30                 (4)  Interstate Highway 20 from its intersection with
1-31     Farm-to-Market Road 1788 to its intersection with United States
1-32     Highway 385;
1-33                 (5) [(3)]  United States Highway 385 from Odessa to
1-34     Fort Stockton, including those portions that parallel United States
1-35     Highway 67 and Interstate Highway 10; and
1-36                 (6) [(4)]  United States Highway 67 from Fort Stockton
1-37     to Presidio, including those portions that parallel Interstate
1-38     Highway 10 and United States Highway 90.
1-39           (b)  The department shall design and construct commemorative
1-40     markers to be placed along the corridor indicating the highway
1-41     number, its designation as the future route of La Entrada al
1-42     Pacifico Corridor, and any other appropriate information.
1-43           (c)  The department shall erect a commemorative marker at
1-44     each end of the memorial highway and at intermediate sites along
1-45     the highway that the department determines are appropriate.
1-46           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-47           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-48     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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