By: Lucio S.B. No. 1248

(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2011; March 16, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; April 19, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 19, 2011, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1248 By: Davis

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 499 as the Colonel Bill Card, Jr., Boulevard.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 225.084 to read as follows:

Sec. 225.084. COLONEL BILL CARD, JR., BOULEVARD. (a) The portion of State Highway 499 from U.S. Highway 77 to County Road 106 is designated as the Colonel Bill Card, Jr., Boulevard.

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

(1) design and construct markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the Colonel Bill Card, Jr., Boulevard, and any other appropriate information; and

(2) erect a marker at each end of the boulevard and at appropriate intermediate sites along the boulevard.

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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