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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the designation of a portion of Interstate Highway 35 as |
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| 8 | 8 | | the Trooper Tom Nipper Memorial Highway. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code, |
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| 11 | 11 | | is amended by adding Section 225.152 to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | Sec. 225.152. TROOPER TOM NIPPER MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The |
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| 13 | 13 | | portion of Interstate Highway 35 in Bell County between mile marker |
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| 14 | 14 | | 294 and mile marker 297 is designated as the Trooper Tom Nipper |
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| 15 | 15 | | Memorial Highway. The designation is in addition to any other |
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| 16 | 16 | | designation. |
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| 17 | 17 | | (b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (1) design and construct markers indicating the |
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| 19 | 19 | | designation as the Trooper Tom Nipper Memorial Highway and any |
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| 20 | 20 | | other appropriate information; and |
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| 21 | 21 | | (2) erect a marker at each end of the highway and at |
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| 22 | 22 | | appropriate intermediate sites along the highway. |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 24 | 24 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 25 | 25 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 26 | 26 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 27 | 27 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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