Bill Text: TX HB2577 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 180 in Gaines County as the Bob Ford Memorial Highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB2577 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2577-Introduced.html

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86R10372 JRR-D
By: Burrows H.B. No. 2577

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 180 in
Gaines County as the Bob Ford 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 225.152 to read as follows:
Sec. 225.152. BOB FORD MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a) The portion
of U.S. Highway 180 in Gaines County between its intersection with
Farm-to-Market Road 1757 and the eastern municipal boundary of
Seminole is designated as the Bob Ford Memorial Highway.
(b) Subject to Section 225.021(c), the department shall:
(1) design and construct markers indicating the
designation as the Bob Ford 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, 2019.