By: Middleton (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) H.B. No. 2809
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019;
April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 15, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of State Highway 99 in Chambers County
as the Deputy Sheriff Shane Detwiler 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. DEPUTY SHERIFF SHANE DETWILER MEMORIAL
HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of State Highway 99 in Chambers County
between its intersection with Interstate Highway 10 and the Harris
County line is designated as the Deputy Sheriff Shane Detwiler
Memorial Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Deputy Sheriff Shane Detwiler 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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