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          A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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          AN ACT
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        relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 90  | 
      
      
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        Alternate as the Johnnie David Hutchins Memorial Highway. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,  | 
      
      
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        is amended by adding Section 225.123 to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               Sec. 225.123.   JOHNNIE DAVID HUTCHINS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.   | 
      
      
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        (a)  The portion of U.S. Highway 90 Alternate in Wharton County is  | 
      
      
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        designated as the Johnnie David Hutchins Memorial Highway. | 
      
      
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               (b)  Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall: | 
      
      
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                     (1)  design and construct markers indicating the  | 
      
      
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        designation as the Johnnie David Hutchins Memorial Highway and any  | 
      
      
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        other appropriate information; and  | 
      
      
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                     (2)  erect a marker at each end of the highway and at  | 
      
      
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        appropriate intermediate sites along the highway. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |