By: Harris (Senate Sponsor - Schwertner) H.B. No. 693

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019; April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 8, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 8, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of the portion of U.S. Highway 84 in Freestone County as the Trooper Damon Allen 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 225.152 to read as follows:

Sec. 225.152. TROOPER DAMON ALLEN MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of U.S. Highway 84 in Freestone County is designated as the Trooper Damon Allen Memorial Highway.

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

(1) design and construct markers indicating the designation as the Trooper Damon Allen 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, 2019.

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