82R1938 AJZ-D
 
  By: Hardcastle H.B. No. 314
 
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 81 as the
 
  Corporal David Slaton 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 225.082 to read as follows:
         
         Sec. 225.082.  CORPORAL DAVID SLATON MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a)
 
  The portion of U.S. Highway 81 from the Texas-Oklahoma border to the
 
  northern municipal boundary of Bowie is designated as the Corporal
 
  David Slaton Memorial Highway.
         
         (b)  Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
               
               (1)  design and construct markers indicating the
 
  highway number, the designation as the Corporal David Slaton
 
  Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate information; and
               
               (2)  erect a marker at each end of the highway and at
 
  appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.
         
         (c)  In this section, a reference to the municipal boundary
 
  of Bowie means that boundary as it exists on September 1, 2011.
         
         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, 2011.