By: Flynn (Senate Sponsor - Deuell) H.B. No. 1409
(In the Senate - Received from the House March 31, 2011;
April 4, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation and Homeland Security; April 18, 2011, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 18, 2011,
sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a segment of State Highway 243 in Van
Zandt County as the Veterans Memorial Parkway.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 225.082 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.082. VETERANS MEMORIAL PARKWAY. (a) State
Highway 243 in Van Zandt County, between State Highway 198 and State
Highway 64, is designated as the Veterans Memorial Parkway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct memorial markers indicating
the highway number, the designation as the Veterans Memorial
Parkway, and any other appropriate information; and
(2) erect a marker at each end of the parkway and at
appropriate intermediate sites along the parkway.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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