HBA- MPA S.B. 682 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 682
By: Duncan
Transportation
4/18/1999
Committee Report (Amended)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

The 75th Legislature enacted legislation that designated the future route
of La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor.  The route followed State Highway 349
from Lamesa south to Midland, west on IH-20 to Odessa, and then south on
U.S. 385 to Fort Stockton. That legislation also directed the Texas
Department of Transportation to design, construct, and place commemorative
markers along the highway to indicate the corridor's designation. 

S.B. 682  makes technical corrections to statutory language by slightly
modifying the corridor's route and boundaries.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 225.034, Transportation Code, as added by
Section 1, Chapter 595, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
1997, and redesignates it as Section 225.040, as follows: 

Sec. 225.040.  LA ENTRADA AL PACIFICO CORRIDOR. Specifies the highways and
portions of highways designated as La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor.
Includes in the designation any portion of a highway in a corridor on two
miles of either side of the center line of the highway.  Creates new
Subdivisions (3) and (4) and redesignates existing Subdivisions (3) and (4)
to Subdivisions (5) and (6), respectively.  

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.


EXPLANATION OF AMENDMENTS

Amendment #1

Amends Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code, by adding Section
225.045, as follows: 

Sec. 225.045.  SARGENT JOE PARKS, JR. MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.  Provides that
Farmto-Market Road 457, from mile marker #648 to #677, located in the
County of Matagorda, is now named Sargent Joe Parks, Jr. Memorial Highway.