BILL ANALYSIS

S.B. 3034

By: Bettencourt

Transportation

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Doug Pitcock is a graduate of Texas A&M University, Class of 1949, with a degree in civil engineering, and in 1955, the Williams brothers and Mr. Pitcock founded the Williams Brothers construction company. The next year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Interstate Highway Act, and since that time, Williams Brothers has completed over 400 Texas Department of Transportation projects with a total value of over $17 billion, making the company one of the largest highway contractors in the United States, as well as the largest in Texas.

Mr. Pitcock has received multiple distinctions from Texas A&M University over the years and has funded numerous fellowships and research projects at Texas A&M and established several Corps of Cadets scholarships. The on-campus hotel and conference center at Texas A&M is named in his honor. S.B. 3034 seeks to designate a portion of State Highway 249 as the Doug Pitcock Aggie Expressway, in honor of this man who helped build so many miles of the state's roadways.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

S.B. 3034 amends the Transportation Code to designate the portion of State Highway 249 in Grimes and Montgomery Counties between its intersection with State Highway 105 and its southern intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1774 as the Doug Pitcock Aggie Expressway, in addition to any other designation. The bill requires the Texas Department of Transportation, subject to a grant or donation of funds, to do the following:

· design and construct markers indicating the designation as the Doug Pitcock Aggie Expressway and any other appropriate information; and

· erect a marker at each end of the highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.

S.B. 3034 establishes that it is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, that the provisions added by the bill be renumbered to prevent multiple provisions with the same designation.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2025.