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HB4731 • 2025

Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway Loop 88 in Lubbock County as the First Responders Memorial Loop.

Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway Loop 88 in Lubbock County as the First Responders Memorial Loop.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Tepper
Last action
2025-05-15
Official status
05/15/2025 H Laid on the table subject to call
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway Loop 88 in Lubbock County as the First Responders Memorial Loop.

Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway Loop 88 in Lubbock County as the First Responders Memorial Loop.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway Loop 88 in Lubbock County as the First Responders Memorial Loop.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Companion considered in lieu of. SB 1895

  2. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid on the table subject to call

  3. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  4. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  5. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  6. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  7. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  8. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  9. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  10. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  11. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  12. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  13. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Transportation

  14. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway Loop 88 in Lubbock County as the First Responders Memorial Loop.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 4731 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R16246 RDR-D

By: Tepper

H.B. No. 4731

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway Loop 88 in

Lubbock County as the First Responders Memorial Loop.

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.

FIRST RESPONDERS MEMORIAL LOOP. (a)

The

portion of State Highway Loop 88 under construction as of September

1, 2025, as a relief route around Lubbock, in Lubbock County is

designated as the First Responders Memorial Loop.

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

First Responders Memorial Loop and any other

appropriate information; and

(2)

erect a marker at appropriate sites along the

loop.

SECTION 2. It is the intent 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.