Bill Text: TX HB1317 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of certain highways and locations, including the establishment of the Tom Lea Trail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1317 Detail]

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By: King of Hemphill (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1317
(In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 2017;
May 11, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of U.S. Highway 287 in Claude as the
Charles H. Roan 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 225.123 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.123. CHARLES H. ROAN MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The
portion of U.S. Highway 287 in Claude is designated as the Charles
H. Roan Memorial Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Charles H. Roan 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, 2017.
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