By: Burkett (Senate Sponsor - Deuell) H.B. No. 3208

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011; May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; May 13, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 13, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of a segment of U.S. Highway 80 in the town of Sunnyvale as a Blue Star 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. BLUE STAR MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) U.S. Highway 80 in the town of Sunnyvale is designated as a Blue Star Memorial Highway.

(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:

(1) design and construct markers indicating the designation as a Blue Star 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.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.

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