By: Clardy (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 1969

(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 State Highway 7 in Nacogdoches County as the Bataan and Corregidor Veterans 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. BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of State Highway 7 in Nacogdoches County is designated as the Bataan and Corregidor Veterans Memorial Highway.

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

(1) design and construct markers indicating the designation as the Bataan and Corregidor Veterans 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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