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By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 874
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 2005;
April 6, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation and Homeland Security; May 11, 2005, reported
adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 2005, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 874 By: Wentworth
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to designating a portion of State Highway 123 as the
Senator John Traeger 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 225.0395 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.0395. SENATOR JOHN TRAEGER MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a)
State Highway 123 between Interstate Highway 10 and United States
Highway 90A is designated as the Senator John Traeger Memorial
Highway.
(b) The department shall design and construct memorial
markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the
Senator John Traeger Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate
information.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the department
shall erect a marker at each end of the highway and at appropriate
intermediate sites along the highway.
(d) The department is not required to design, construct, or
erect a marker required by this section unless a grant or donation
of private funds is made to the department to cover the cost of the
design, construction, and erection of the marker.
(e) Money collected under Section 225.021 for the purpose of
implementing this section shall be deposited to the credit of the
state highway fund.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
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