Bill Text: TX HB3421 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 3421 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail as a historic highway.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB3421 Detail]

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	By: Miller of Comal (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)	H.B. No. 3421
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011;
	May 4, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Transportation and Homeland Security; May 20, 2011, reported
	favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2011,
	sent to printer.)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the designation of the El Camino Real de los Tejas
	National Historic Trail as a historic highway.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 442.021, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows:
	(c) The commission shall cooperate with the Texas
	Department of Transportation to designate, interpret, and market
	the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail as a Texas
	historic highway.
	(d) To supplement revenue available for the purposes under
	Subsection (c), the commission and the Texas Department of
	Transportation may pursue federal funds dedicated to highway
	enhancement.
	(e) A designation of the El Camino Real de los Tejas
	National Historic Trail as a Texas historic highway may not be
	construed as a designation under the National Historic Preservation
	Act (16 U.S.C. Section 470 et seq.).
	(f) The Texas Department of Transportation is not required
	to design, construct, or erect a marker under this section unless a
	grant or donation of funds is made to the department to cover the
	cost of the design, construction, and erection of the marker. Money
	received to cover the cost of the marker shall be deposited to the
	credit of the state highway fund.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.

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