Bill Text: TX HB3917 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of a portion of Interstate Highway 20 as the Trooper Billy Jack Zachary Memorial Highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective immediately [HB3917 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3917-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Landgraf (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 3917
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017;
May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 15, 2017, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a portion of Interstate Highway 20 as
the Trooper Billy Jack Zachary 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 225.123 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.123. TROOPER BILLY JACK ZACHARY MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.
(a) The portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Ward County between
mile marker 80 and mile marker 82 is designated as the Trooper Billy
Jack Zachary Memorial Highway. 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
highway number, the designation as the Trooper Billy Jack Zachary
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 immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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