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HB4542 • 2025

Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 79 in Freestone and Leon Counties as the Cecil and Dorothy Bell Memorial Highway.

Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 79 in Freestone and Leon Counties as the Cecil and Dorothy Bell Memorial Highway.

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Sponsor
Orr
Last action
2025-05-13
Official status
05/13/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 79 in Freestone and Leon Counties as the Cecil and Dorothy Bell Memorial Highway.

Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S.
  • Highway 79 in Freestone and Leon Counties as the Cecil and Dorothy Bell Memorial Highway.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  2. 2025-05-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  3. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  4. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  5. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  6. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  7. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  8. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  9. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  10. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  11. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  12. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Transportation

  13. 2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 79 in Freestone and Leon Counties as the Cecil and Dorothy Bell Memorial Highway.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text
89(R) HB 4542 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R27019 JRR-D

By: Orr

H.B. No. 4542

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4542:

By: Curry

C.S.H.B. No. 4542

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 79 in

Freestone and Leon Counties as the Cecil and Dorothy Bell 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 225.243 to read as follows:

Sec.

225.243.

CECIL AND DOROTHY BELL MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. (a)

The portion of U.S. Highway 79 in Freestone and Leon Counties

between its intersection with U.S. Highway 84 and its intersection

with the western municipal limits of Oakwood is designated as the

Cecil and Dorothy Bell 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 Cecil and Dorothy Bell 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. It is the intention of the 89th Legislature,

Regular Session, 2025, that the provisions added by this Act be

renumbered to prevent multiple provisions with the same

designation.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.