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               AN ACT
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            relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 380 in Wise  | 
         
         
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            and Jack Counties as the Lost Battalion 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.  LOST BATTALION MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.  (a)  The  | 
         
         
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            portion of U.S. Highway 380 in Wise and Jack Counties between its  | 
         
         
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            intersection with U.S. Highway 281 and its intersection with County  | 
         
         
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            Road 3001 is designated as the Lost Battalion Memorial Highway.  The  | 
         
         
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            designation is in addition to any other 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 Lost Battalion Memorial Highway and any other  | 
         
         
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            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. 3099 was passed by the House on April  | 
         
         
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            20, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 1, 2 present, not  | 
         
         
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            voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.  | 
         
         
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            No. 3099 on May 19, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 3,  | 
         
         
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            2 present, not voting. | 
         
         
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            Chief Clerk of the House    | 
         
         
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                   I certify that H.B. No. 3099 was passed by the Senate, with  | 
         
         
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            amendments, on May 17, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays  | 
         
         
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            0. | 
         
         
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            Secretary of the Senate    | 
         
         
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            APPROVED: __________________ | 
         
         
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                          Governor        |