By: Seliger S.B. No. 867

(In the Senate - Filed February 14, 2017; February 27, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; March 13, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 13, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of United States Highway 287 in Armstrong and Donley Counties as the Colonel Charles Goodnight 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. COLONEL CHARLES GOODNIGHT MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of United States Highway 287 from the eastern corporate limits of Claude to Clarendon in Armstrong and Donley Counties is designated as the Colonel Charles Goodnight Memorial Highway.

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

(1) design and construct markers indicating the designation as the Colonel Charles Goodnight 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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