By: Eltife S.B. No. 1925

(In the Senate - Filed April 29, 2011; May 2, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; May 11, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 271 as the Sergeant Jay M. Hoskins 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 225.084 to read as follows:

Sec. 225.084. SERGEANT JAY M. HOSKINS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of U.S. Highway 271 from Loop 286 north to the Texas-Oklahoma border is designated as the Sergeant Jay M. Hoskins 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 Sergeant Jay M. Hoskins 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 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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