By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) H.B. No. 1963
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2015;
May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 12, 2015, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 12, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 87 as the
Texas Game Warden Michael C. Pauling Memorial 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 225.107 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.107. TEXAS GAME WARDEN MICHAEL C. PAULING MEMORIAL
HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of State Highway 87 from the bridge over
the intercoastal canal in Port Arthur to its intersection with
Farm-to-Market Road 3322 in Sabine Pass is designated as the Texas
Game Warden Michael C. Pauling Memorial Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Texas Game Warden Michael C. Pauling Memorial
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.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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