By: Hughes S.B. No. 1422
(In the Senate - Filed February 19, 2025; March 6, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
April 16, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
Nays 0; April 16, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a portion of Farm-to-Market Road 852
in Upshur County as the Petty Officer Billy Machen Bridge.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 225, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 225.243 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.243. PETTY OFFICER BILLY MACHEN BRIDGE. (a) The
Farm-to-Market Road 852 bridge crossing Lake Gilmer in Upshur
County is designated as the Petty Officer Billy Machen Bridge. The
designation is in addition to any other designation.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the
Petty Officer Billy Machen Bridge and any other
appropriate information; and
(2) erect a marker at each end of the bridge.
SECTION 2. It is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2025, that the provisions added by this Act be renumbered
to prevent multiple provisions with the same designation.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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