By: King of Hemphill (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1317

(In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 2017; May 11, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of U.S. Highway 287 in Claude as the Charles H. Roan 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. CHARLES H. ROAN MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of U.S. Highway 287 in Claude is designated as the Charles H. Roan Memorial Highway.

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

(1) design and construct markers indicating the designation as the Charles H. Roan 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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