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          AN ACT
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        relating to the designation of a portion of Farm-to-Market Road 518  | 
      
      
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        in Pearland as the Officer Endy Ekpanya Memorial Highway. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,  | 
      
      
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        is amended by adding Section 225.123 to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               Sec. 225.123.  OFFICER ENDY EKPANYA MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a)  | 
      
      
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        The portion of Farm-to-Market Road 518 in Pearland between its  | 
      
      
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        intersection with State Highway 35 and Sunset Meadows Drive is  | 
      
      
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        designated as the Officer Endy Ekpanya Memorial Highway. | 
      
      
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               (b)  Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall: | 
      
      
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                     (1)  design and construct markers indicating the  | 
      
      
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        designation as the Officer Endy Ekpanya Memorial Highway and any  | 
      
      
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        other appropriate information; and  | 
      
      
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                     (2)  erect a marker at each end of the highway and at  | 
      
      
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        appropriate intermediate sites along the highway. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 938 was passed by the House on May 4,  | 
      
      
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        2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 938 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
      
      
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        19, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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