By: Simpson (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 2540
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2015;
May 14, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 19, 2015, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of Spur 63 in Gregg County as the Texas
Ranger Glenn Elliott 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 225.106 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.106. TEXAS RANGER GLENN ELLIOTT MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.
(a) Spur 63 in Gregg County between its intersection with U.S.
Highway 80 and Spur 502 is designated as the Texas Ranger Glenn
Elliott Memorial Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Texas Ranger Glenn Elliott 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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