By: Stephenson (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) H.B. No. 1303
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017;
  May 8, 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 State Highway 71 in
  Wharton County as the Roy P. Benavidez 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.  ROY P. BENAVIDEZ MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a)  The
  portion of State Highway 71 in Wharton County between its
  intersection with the Colorado County line and Farm-to-Market Road
  2765 is designated as the Roy P. Benavidez Memorial Highway.
         (b)  Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
               (1)  design and construct markers indicating the
  designation as the Roy P. Benavidez 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, 2017.
 
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