By: Burrows (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 2331
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019;
April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 13, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 13, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 385 in
Seagraves as the Irvin "Butch" Hill 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. IRVIN "BUTCH" HILL MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The
portion of U.S. Highway 385 South between the southern municipal
limit of Seagraves and Gaines County Park is designated as the Irvin
"Butch" Hill Memorial Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Irvin "Butch" Hill 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, 2019.
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