By: Eltife S.B. No. 139

(In the Senate - Filed December 3, 2012; January 29, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; March 11, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 11, 2013, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 139 By: Watson

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of a segment of U.S. Highway 80 as the Sergeant Travis E. Watkins 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 225.091 to read as follows:

Sec. 225.091. SERGEANT TRAVIS E. WATKINS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of U.S. Highway 80 from U.S. Highway 271 in Gregg County to the eastern municipal boundary of Big Sandy in Upshur County is designated as the Sergeant Travis E. Watkins Memorial Highway. The designation is in addition to any other designation.

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

(1) design and construct markers indicating the designation as the Sergeant Travis E. Watkins 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, 2013.

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