BILL ANALYSIS

Senate Research Center                                                                                                C.S.H.B. 747

                                                                                                                  By: McReynolds (Staples)

Transportation & Homeland Security

4/21/2005

Committee Report (Substituted)

AUTHOR'S/SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

C.S.H.B. 747 designates the parts of State Highways 7, 21, and 103, United States Highway 290, and Interstate 10 that follow the route of the El Camino Real de los Tejas from Pendleton to El Paso as the El Camino Real East/West Corridor. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code, by adding Section 225.0401, as follows:

            Sec. 225.0401.  EL CAMINO REAL EAST/WEST CORRIDOR. (a) Designates the parts of State Highways 7, 21, and 103, United States Highway 290, and Interstate Highway 10 from Pendleton to El Paso as the El Camino Real East/West Corridor. 

                        (b) Requires the Texas Department of Transportation (department), to the extent the El Camino Real East/West Commission reimburses the department for the department's costs, to design, construct, and erect certain markers along the El Camino Real East/West Corridor.

                        (c) Requires the funds provided to reimburse the department for costs associated with implementing this section to be deposited to the credit of the state highway fund.    

SECTION 2.  Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2005.