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               AN ACT
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            relating to the designation of a portion of Interstate Highway 35 in  | 
         
         
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            Williamson County as the Officer Charles Whites 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 225.217 to read as follows: | 
         
         
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                   Sec. 225.217.  OFFICER CHARLES WHITES MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.  (a)   | 
         
         
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            The portion of Interstate Highway 35 in Williamson County between  | 
         
         
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            its intersection with State Highway 45 and its intersection with  | 
         
         
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            Westinghouse Road is designated as the Officer Charles Whites  | 
         
         
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            Memorial Highway.  The designation is in addition to any other  | 
         
         
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            designation. | 
         
         
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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 Charles Whites 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, 2023. | 
         
         
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               President of the Senate | 
            Speaker of the House      | 
         
         
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                   I certify that H.B. No. 1968 was passed by the House on May 6,  | 
         
         
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            2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 133, Nays 1, 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. 1968 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
         
         
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            21, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
         
         
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            Secretary of the Senate     | 
         
         
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                             Governor        |