By: Stephenson (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) | H.B. No. 1303 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 15, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 71 in | ||
Wharton County as the Roy P. Benavidez 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 225.123 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 225.123. ROY P. BENAVIDEZ MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The | ||
portion of State Highway 71 in Wharton County between its | ||
intersection with the Colorado County line and Farm-to-Market Road | ||
2765 is designated as the Roy P. Benavidez Memorial Highway. | ||
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall: | ||
(1) design and construct markers indicating the | ||
designation as the Roy P. Benavidez 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, 2017. | ||
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