By: Averitt S.B. No. 521
(In the Senate - Filed January 23, 2009; February 17, 2009,
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and
Homeland Security; March 9, 2009, reported adversely, with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8,
Nays 0; March 9, 2009, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 521 By: Carona
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Texas Department of Transportation's memorial sign
program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 201.909, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
follows:
(c) A sign designed and posted under this section shall
include:
(1) the phrase "Please Don't Drink and Drive";
(2) the phrase "In Memory Of" and the name of one or
more victims [the victim] in accordance with the commission rule
[in whose memory the sign is placed]; and
(3) the date of the accident that resulted in the
victim's death.
(c-1) The sign may include the names of more than one victim
so long as the total length of the names does not exceed one line of
text.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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