By: Clardy (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 1969
(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 the portion of State Highway 7 in
Nacogdoches County as the Bataan and Corregidor Veterans 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. BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR VETERANS MEMORIAL
HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of State Highway 7 in Nacogdoches County
is designated as the Bataan and Corregidor Veterans Memorial
Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Bataan and Corregidor Veterans 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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