By: Lopez of Cameron, et al. H.B. No. 2523
        (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa of Nueces)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 30, 2025;
  May 1, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation; May 7, 2025, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 7, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 48 in
  Cameron County as the Deputy Constable Ruben Garcia 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 225.252 to read as follows:
         Sec. 225.252.  DEPUTY CONSTABLE RUBEN GARCIA MEMORIAL
  HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of State Highway 48 in Cameron County
  between its intersection with State Highway 550 and its
  intersection with Fishermans Place Road is designated as the Deputy
  Constable Ruben Garcia Memorial Highway.  The designation is in
  addition to any other designation.
         (b)  Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
               (1)  design and construct markers indicating the
  designation as the Deputy Constable Ruben Garcia 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.  It is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2025, that the provisions added by this Act be renumbered
  to prevent multiple provisions with the same designation.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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