By: Veasey (Senate Sponsor - Brimer) H.B. No. 484

(In the Senate - Received from the House March 19, 2007; April 3, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; April 24, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 24, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of a portion of United States Highway 287 as the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Freeway.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 225.066 to read as follows:

Sec. 225.066. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., FREEWAY. (a) The part of United States Highway 287 south of State Highway 180 to its intersection with Interstate Highway 820 in Tarrant County is designated as the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Freeway.

(b) The department shall design and construct memorial markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Freeway, and any other appropriate information.

(c) 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 under this section unless the department receives a grant or donation to cover the cost of the design, construction, and erection.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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