By Cain                                                S.B. No. 834
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to including memorial signs in the Adopt-a-Highway
 1-3     program.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 201.906 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 201.906.  MEMORIAL SIGNS.  If the department conducts a
 1-8     program allowing eligible groups to support the department's
 1-9     antilitter programs by  adopting a section of highway, the
1-10     department:
1-11                 (1)  must allow eligible groups to adopt a section of
1-12     highway in the memory of an individual; and
1-13                 (2)  shall place signs at each end of the adopted
1-14     section stating that section of highway is adopted in memory of the
1-15     chosen individual.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.