The Transportation Commission pays if the Legislature sets aside money.
The bill changes the state highway memorial marker program for peace officers killed in the line of duty who are not state troopers. Those markers no longer have to be paid for with private money, and the Transportation Commission must pay for them if the Legislature sets aside money for that purpose. Families and agencies of fallen local officers could get roadside markers without raising private funds, but only if lawmakers fund it.
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Labels: QUICK READ: 143 WORDS. The bill as filed runs 143 words, counting the existing law it amends and the text it strikes. The median 89R bill as filed runs 441 words (derived, 8,702 graded bills, snapshot Oct 19, 2026).GOT HALFWAY. Passed the Senate on Apr 10, 2025. Died in the House: left pending in the Transportation committee.
relating to memorial markers honoring certain peace officers killed
in the line of duty.
WHAT IT DOES
The Transportation Commission pays if the Legislature sets aside money.
The bill changes the state highway memorial marker program for peace officers killed in the line of duty who are not state troopers. Those markers no longer have to be paid for with private money, and the Transportation Commission must pay for them if the Legislature sets aside money for that purpose. Families and agencies of fallen local officers could get roadside markers without raising private funds, but only if lawmakers fund it.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No first-year general revenue figure available here.
The fiscal impact to the state cannot be determined because the amount and timing of legislative appropriations of General Revenue Funds for the construction and installation of highway memorial signs authorized by the bill is unknown. The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill.
LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.
Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
HISTORY
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
Filed
Read first time
Referred to Transportation
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Considered in public hearing
Left pending in committee
Considered in public hearing
Vote taken in committee
Reported favorably as substituted
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
Committee report printed and distributed
Placed on intent calendar
Co-author authorized
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
Vote recorded in Journal
Three day rule suspended
Record vote
Read 3rd time
Passed
Record vote
Reported engrossed
Received from the Senate
Read first time
Referred to Transportation
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Considered in public hearing
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
The bill's only subject is roadside memorial markers honoring fallen officers, which is commemorative. Its one real change is who pays for those markers.
FILED UNDER
No verified beat found.
SIGNED FOR BY
Senate · 30 yea · 0 nay
Sources
Senate: Final passage · Apr 10, 2025. Journal. Published stock for this vote. Snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed for yea. Only the named positions are included in member records.
Sources
Senator Flores moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 249 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 30 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: 1 (derived from named list)
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
The fiscal impact to the state cannot be determined because the amount and timing of legislative appropriations of General Revenue Funds for the construction and installation of highway memorial signs authorized by the bill is unknown. The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill.
LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.
Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
How this was graded
Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
House committee · Transportation · Final status: Died in committee
Senate committee · Transportation · Committee vote 8 aye, 0 nay, 1 absent · Out of committee
Subjects
Highways
Law Enforcement
SIGNS
TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, TEXAS
Text
The text as introduced · 143 words
89R3591 CXP-F
By: Flores
S.B. No. 249
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to memorial markers honoring certain peace officers killed
in the line of duty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 201.910(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The commission by rule shall authorize memorial markers
honoring peace officers killed in the line of duty who are not
Department of Public Safety troopers. The program established
under this subsection [ section ] shall be identical to the
commission's existing program for memorial markers for honoring
Department of Public Safety troopers except that the markers are
not required to be privately funded and the commission shall
provide funding for the memorial markers if the legislature
appropriates money for that purpose .
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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