Bill Text: TX HB1691 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of certain rest areas on Interstate Highway 27 in Hale County as the Nelda Laney Safety Rest Areas.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1691 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1691-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of certain rest areas on Interstate Highway 27 in Hale County as the Nelda Laney Safety Rest Areas.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1691 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1691-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Smithee, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) | H.B. No. 1691 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2017; | ||
| May 3, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
| Transportation; May 11, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
| Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
| May 11, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1691 | By: Hall | |
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| relating to the designation of certain rest areas on Interstate | ||
| Highway 27 in Hale County as the Nelda M. Laney Safety Rest Areas. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Y, Chapter 201, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 201.2003 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 201.2003. NELDA M. LANEY SAFETY REST AREAS. (a) The | ||
| northbound and southbound rest areas located on Interstate Highway | ||
| 27 in Hale County are designated as the Nelda M. Laney Safety Rest | ||
| Areas. | ||
| (b) The department shall design and construct markers at | ||
| each rest area described by Subsection (a) indicating the | ||
| designation of those rest areas as the Nelda M. Laney Safety Rest | ||
| Areas and any other appropriate information. | ||
| (c) The department shall erect markers at appropriate | ||
| locations at the rest areas. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Subsections (b) and (c), the department | ||
| is not required to design, construct, or erect a marker under this | ||
| section unless a grant or donation of private funds is made to the | ||
| department to cover the cost of the design, construction, and | ||
| erection of the marker. | ||
| (e) Money received under Subsection (d) shall be deposited | ||
| to the credit of the state highway fund. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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