SLS 24RS-218 ENGROSSED
2024 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 67
BY SENATOR WHEAT
ROADS/HIGHWAYS. Designates a portion of Interstate 55 in Tangipahoa Parish as the
"Trooper Hung Le Memorial Highway". (8/1/24)
1 AN ACT
2 To provide relative to state highways; to designate a portion of Interstate 55 in Tangipahoa
3 Parish as the "Trooper Hung Le Memorial Highway"; to provide for restrictions on
4 costs of materials to the department; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
7 the portion of Interstate 55 between mile marker sixteen and mile marker
8 twenty-three in Tangipahoa Parish is hereby designated as the "Trooper Hung
9 Le Memorial Highway".
10 Section 2. The Department of Transportation and Development is hereby
11 directed to erect and maintain appropriate signs of this designation provided
12 local or private monies are received by the department equal to the
13 department's actual costs for material, fabrication, mounting posts, and
14 installation of each sign, not to exceed the sum of one thousand six hundred
15 eighty dollars per sign.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions. SB NO. 67
SLS 24RS-218 ENGROSSED
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Archana D. Cadge.
DIGEST
SB 67 Engrossed 2024 Regular Session Wheat
Designates a portion of Interstate 55 in Tangipahoa Parish, as the "Trooper Hung Le
Memorial Highway".
Directs DOTD to erect and maintain appropriate signs of this designation provided certain
cost restrictions are satisfied.
Effective August 1, 2024.
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Transportation,
Highways, and Public Works to the original bill
1. Increases the cost of implementation from $550 to $1,680.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.