| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 27, 2017, read |
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| 3 | + | first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; |
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| 4 | + | April 18, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, |
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| 5 | + | Nays 0; April 18, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 4 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 11 | | relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 271 as the |
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| 7 | 12 | | Veterans Memorial Highway. |
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| 8 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code, |
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| 10 | 15 | | is amended by adding Section 225.123 to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 16 | | Sec. 225.123. VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion |
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| 12 | 17 | | of U.S. Highway 271 in Camp County is designated as the Veterans |
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| 13 | 18 | | Memorial Highway. |
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| 14 | 19 | | (b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall: |
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| 15 | 20 | | (1) design and construct markers indicating the |
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| 16 | 21 | | designation as the Veterans Memorial Highway and any other |
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| 17 | 22 | | appropriate information; and |
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| 18 | 23 | | (2) erect a marker at each end of the highway and at |
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| 19 | 24 | | appropriate intermediate sites along the highway. |
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| 20 | 25 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 21 | 26 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 22 | 27 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 23 | 28 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 24 | 29 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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