By: West  S.B. No. 2790
         (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 2025; April 3, 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 U.S. Highway 67 in
  Dallas and Ellis Counties as the Eddie Bernice Johnson 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 225.243 to read as follows:
         Sec. 225.243.  EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a)
  The portion of U.S. Highway 67 in Dallas and Ellis Counties between
  its intersection with U.S. Highway 287 and its intersection with
  Interstate Highway 20 is designated as the Eddie Bernice Johnson
  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 Eddie Bernice Johnson 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 intention 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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