By: Hardcastle (Senate Sponsor - Estes) H.B. No. 314

(In the Senate - Received from the House March 23, 2011; April 7, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; April 18, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 18, 2011, sent to printer.)

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.

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