By: Alvarado  S.B. No. 957
         (In the Senate - Filed February 15, 2023; March 3, 2023,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
  March 29, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; March 29, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the designation of a portion of United States Highway 59
  in Harris County as the Deputy Sheriff Darren Almendarez 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 225.218 to read as follows:
         Sec. 225.218.  DEPUTY SHERIFF DARREN ALMENDAREZ MEMORIAL
  HIGHWAY.  (a)  The portion of United States Highway 59 in Harris
  County between its intersection with Little York Road and its
  intersection with State Highway Loop 8 is designated as the Deputy
  Sheriff Darren Almendarez Memorial Highway.
         (b)  Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
               (1)  design and construct markers indicating the
  designation as the Deputy Sheriff Darren Almendarez Memorial
  Highway and any other appropriate information; and
               (2)  erect a marker at appropriate sites along the
  highway.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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