Bill Text: TX SB249 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to memorial markers honoring certain peace officers killed in the line of duty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB249 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB249-Introduced.html
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| By: Flores | S.B. No. 249 | |
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| relating to memorial markers honoring certain peace officers killed | ||
| in the line of duty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 201.910(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The commission by rule shall authorize memorial markers | ||
| honoring peace officers killed in the line of duty who are not | ||
| Department of Public Safety troopers. The program established | ||
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| commission's existing program for memorial markers for honoring | ||
| Department of Public Safety troopers except that the markers are | ||
| not required to be privately funded and the commission shall | ||
| provide funding for the memorial markers if the legislature | ||
| appropriates money for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
