Bill Text: TX HB481 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of a segment of Farm-to-Market Road 1301 in Wharton County as the Master Sergeant Mike C. Peña Memorial Highway.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB481 Detail]

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By: Stephenson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) H.B. No. 481
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015;
April 30, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 12, 2015, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 12, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a segment of Farm-to-Market Road
1301 in Wharton County as the Master Sergeant Mike C. Peña 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 225.103 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.103. MASTER SERGEANT MIKE C. PEÑA MEMORIAL
HIGHWAY. (a) The portion of Farm-to-Market Road 1301 in Wharton
County between its intersection with the Matagorda County line and
Richmond Road is designated as the Master Sergeant Mike C. Peña
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
designation as the Master Sergeant Mike C. Peña 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, 2015.
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