83R11765 JAM-D By: Nevarez, Menendez, Farias, et al. H.B. No. 1249 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1249: By: Menendez C.S.H.B. No. 1249 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the designation of portions of State Highway 17 and United States Highway 67 as the General Alfred Valenzuela Highway. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 225.091 to read as follows: Sec. 225.091. GENERAL ALFRED VALENZUELA HIGHWAY. (a) The following highways are designated as the General Alfred Valenzuela Highway: (1) State Highway 17 from the western municipal boundary of Balmorhea to its intersection with United States Highway 67; and (2) United States Highway 67 from its intersection with State Highway 17 to the northern municipal boundary of Presidio. (b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall: (1) design and construct markers indicating the designation as the General Alfred Valenzuela Highway and any other appropriate information; and (2) erect a marker at each end of the highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway. (c) In this section, a reference to a municipal boundary means that boundary as it exists on September 1, 2013. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.