By: Seliger S.B. No. 489

(In the Senate - Filed February 9, 2015; February 10, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; March 16, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 16, 2015, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 489 By: Huffines

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 87 in Howard County as the William B. Crooker 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 225.102 to read as follows:

Sec. 225.102. WILLIAM B. CROOKER MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) Notwithstanding Section 225.001(c), the portion of U.S. Highway 87 under construction as of September 1, 2015, as a relief route around Big Spring, between Interstate Highway 20 and Ranch Road 33, in Howard County is designated as the William B. Crooker 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 William B. Crooker 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. The Texas Department of Transportation shall comply with Section 225.102, Transportation Code, as added by this Act, after the construction of the portion of U.S. Highway 87 designated as the William B. Crooker Memorial Highway by this Act is complete.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.

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