By: Schwertner S.B. No. 2246

(In the Senate - Filed May 4, 2021; May 5, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 12, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 12, 2021, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2246 By: Seliger

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 164 in Limestone County as the Trooper Chad M. Walker Memorial Highway.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 225.190 to read as follows:

Sec. 225.190. TROOPER CHAD M. WALKER MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of State Highway 164 in Limestone County between Farm-to-Market Road 1953 and County Road 789 is designated as the Trooper Chad M. Walker Memorial Highway.

(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:

(1) design and construct markers indicating the designation as the Trooper Chad M. Walker Memorial Highway and any other appropriate information; and

(2) erect a marker at each end of the highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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