By: Landgraf (Senate Sponsor - Sparks) H.B. No. 2083
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 17, 2023;
May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 11, 2023, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 11, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a portion of Business Interstate
Highway 20-E in Ector County as the Mac Wilson and Rex Young Medal
of Honor 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 225.217 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.217. MAC WILSON AND REX YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR
HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of Business Interstate Highway 20-E in
Ector County between its eastern intersection with State Highway
Loop 338 and its intersection with the Ector-Midland County Line is
designated as the Mac Wilson and Rex Young Medal of Honor Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Mac Wilson and Rex Young Medal of Honor 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, 2023.
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