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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas Extends Highway Memorial Sign Duration to Ten Years and Adds Motorcycle Safety Message Requirements
Last action · May 15, 2025: Placed on General State CalendarSponsors: Cody Harris and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
Texas extends the authorized display period for highway memorial signs from two years to ten years and requires signs for motorcycle collision victims to include a commission-developed safety message. The legislation also limits state-funded marker repairs after ten years for provisions enacted after January 1, 2025, unless external grants or donations cover the cost.
Families of highway collision victims gain a longer display duration for memorial markers starting September 1, 2025, while the state limits its long-term financial liability for maintaining certain new markers beyond ten years without private funding.
- The Transportation Code governs the establishment and maintenance of state highway infrastructure, safety signage, and memorial markers in Texas. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Texas Department of Transportation
The department must maintain signs for a ten-year period, follow new commission rules for motorcycle safety messages, and restrict state-funded marker repairs after ten years without donations.
Motorcycle collision victim families
Applicants and families may keep memorial signs posted for ten years instead of two.
Texas Transportation Commission
The commission is required to adopt rules developing motorcyclist safety messages for memorial signs by December 1, 2025.
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What must be included on a memorial sign dedicated to a motorcycle collision victim?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the House floor.
Procedural history
13 actions- May 15, 2025HousePlaced on General State Calendar
- May 13, 2025HouseConsidered in Calendars
- May 12, 2025HouseCommittee report sent to Calendars
- May 12, 2025HouseCommittee report distributed
- May 12, 2025HouseComte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- May 1, 2025HouseCommitteeReported favorably as substituted
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- May 1, 2025HouseTestimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- May 1, 2025HouseCommittee substitute considered in committee
- May 1, 2025HouseConsidered in public hearing
- May 1, 2025HouseScheduled for public hearing on . . .
- Mar 11, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Transportation
- Mar 11, 2025HouseIntroducedRead first time
- Nov 19, 2024HouseIntroducedFiled
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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