By: Springer (Senate Sponsor - Estes) H.B. No. 409
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 2017;
April 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 3, 2017, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a portion of Farm-to-Market Road
1810 in Jack County as the Luther G. Prunty 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 225.123 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.123. LUTHER G. PRUNTY MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The
portion of Farm-to-Market Road 1810 in Jack County beginning at its
intersection with State Highway 59 to the eastern boundary of Jack
County is designated as the Luther G. Prunty Memorial Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Luther G. Prunty 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, 2017.
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