BILL ANALYSIS

S.B. 867

By: Seliger

Transportation

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties call for the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 287 as the Colonel Charles Goodnight Memorial Highway to honor Colonel Goodnight's contributions to the Texas frontier. S.B. 867 seeks to provide for that designation.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

S.B. 867 amends the Transportation Code to designate the portion of U.S. Highway 287 from the eastern corporate limits of Claude to Clarendon in Armstrong and Donley Counties as the Colonel Charles Goodnight Memorial Highway. The bill requires the Texas Department of Transportation, subject to a grant or donation of funds, to design and construct markers indicating the designation as the Colonel Charles Goodnight Memorial Highway and any other appropriate information and to erect a marker at each end of the highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2017.