By: Clardy (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 1779
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019;
April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 8, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 8, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 21 in
Nacogdoches County as the Sergeant Tom Sitton 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 225.152 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.152. SERGEANT TOM SITTON MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a)
The portion of State Highway 21 in Nacogdoches County between
County Road 713 and County Road 782 is designated as the Sergeant
Tom Sitton Memorial Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Sergeant Tom Sitton 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 September 1, 2019.
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