Bill Text: TX HB1398 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to signs posted under the memorial sign program for victims of certain vehicle collisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-19 - Filed [HB1398 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1398-Introduced.html

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89R672 DRS-D
By: Harris H.B. No. 1398

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to signs posted under the memorial sign program for
victims of certain vehicle collisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 201.909(e), (f), and (g),
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
(e) If the application meets the department's requirements
and the applicant pays the memorial sign fee, the department shall
erect a sign. A sign posted under this section may remain posted for
ten [two] years. At the end of the ten-year [two-year] period the
department may release the sign to the applicant. The department is
not required to release a sign that has been damaged.
(f) A sign posted under this section that is damaged shall
be removed by the department. Except as provided in Subsection (g),
the department may post a new sign if it has been less than ten [two]
years from the posting of the original sign and a person:
(1) submits a written request to the department to
replace the sign; and
(2) submits a replacement fee in the amount provided
under Subsection (d)(2).
(g) During the ten-year [two-year] posting period the
department shall replace a sign posted under this section that is
damaged because of the department's negligence.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.