By: Hughes S.B. No. 682
(In the Senate - Filed December 19, 2024; February 3, 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
2493 in Smith County as the Captain Kevin Williams and Firefighter
Austin Cheek 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 225.243 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.243. CAPTAIN KEVIN WILLIAMS AND FIREFIGHTER AUSTIN
CHEEK MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of Farm-to-Market Road
2493 in Smith County between its intersection with Church Street in
Flint and its intersection with County Road 150 is designated as the
Captain Kevin Williams and Firefighter Austin Cheek Memorial
Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Captain Kevin Williams and Firefighter Austin
Cheek 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, 2025.
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