1-1     By:  Cain                                              S.B. No. 834
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1999; March 4, 1999, read
 1-3     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 including memorial signs in the Adopt-a-Highway
 1-9     program.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,
1-12     is amended by adding Section 201.906 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 201.906.  MEMORIAL SIGNS.  If the department conducts a
1-14     program allowing eligible groups to support the department's
1-15     antilitter programs by adopting a section of highway, the
1-16     department:
1-17                 (1)  must allow eligible groups to adopt a section of
1-18     highway in the memory of an individual; and
1-19                 (2)  shall place signs at each end of the adopted
1-20     section stating that section of highway is adopted in memory of the
1-21     chosen individual.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.
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