By: Nichols  S.B. No. 2150
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2023; March 21, 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 the portion of U.S. Highway 84 in
  Joaquin as the Lt. General O.R. "Cotton" Whiddon 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.  LT. GENERAL O.R. "COTTON" WHIDDON MEMORIAL
  HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of U.S. Highway 84 in the municipal
  limits of Joaquin is designated as the Lt. General O.R. "Cotton"
  Whiddon Memorial Highway.
         (b)  Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
               (1)  design and construct markers indicating the
  designation as the Lt. General O.R. "Cotton" Whiddon 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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