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  By: Burns, Slawson (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) H.B. No. 2835
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2023;
  May 9, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation; May 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2023, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE VOTE
 
 
         YeaNayAbsentPNV
         NicholsX
         WestX
         AlvaradoX
         EckhardtX
         HancockX
         KingX
         MilesX
         ParkerX
         PerryX
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 144 in
  Hood and Somervell Counties as the Ed Shipman 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 225.217 to read as follows:
         Sec. 225.217.  ED SHIPMAN MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion
  of State Highway 144 in Hood and Somervell Counties between its
  intersection with U.S. Highway 67 and its intersection with
  Mitchell Bend Highway is designated as the Ed Shipman Memorial
  Highway.
         (b)  Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
               (1)  design and construct markers indicating the
  designation as the Ed Shipman 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, 2023.
 
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