2025 · Regular session · House bill
HB2061
HB2061 names the structure carrying State Highway 242 over Interstate 69 in Montgomery County the Lance Corporal Armando Hernandez Memorial Bridge.
Official caption: Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 242 in Montgomery County as the Lance Corporal Armando Hernandez Memorial Bridge.
Official report lists House author(s): Holt. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
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Bill highlights
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- HB2061 names the structure carrying State Highway 242 over Interstate 69 in Montgomery County the Lance Corporal Armando Hernandez Memorial Bridge.
- TxDOT must design and erect identifying markers, subject to the existing rule that a grant or donation must cover their design, construction and erection.
What does it do?
HB2061 names the structure carrying State Highway 242 over Interstate 69 in Montgomery County the Lance Corporal Armando Hernandez Memorial Bridge. The name is additional to any other designation. The act does not rename all of SH242 or authorize a new bridge project. Final law.
TxDOT must design and erect identifying markers, subject to the existing rule that a grant or donation must cover their design, construction and erection. The enrolled language calls for markers at each end of the highway and appropriate intermediate sites. The underlying naming provision identifies the specific overpass. The law took effect September 1, 2025; that date alone does not establish that markers were installed. Final law; Transportation Code 225.021.
What changed along the way?
The introduced bill described a bridge “intersecting SH242 and SH59” and called for a marker at each end of the bridge. The House substitute clarified the location as the SH242 structure over I-69, changed the marker-placement wording, and added an instruction to renumber the new provision to avoid duplicate section numbers. The House-passed text changed the proposed section number; the Senate committee and enrolled texts retained that substance. Introduced; House substitute; House-passed; Senate committee.
The official amendment index reports no amendments; the material edits were made through the committee substitute. The House passed it April 30 and the Senate May 25, without a conference report. Amendment index; history; versions.
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Official bill versions
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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
The designation provides public remembrance for Hernandez and a named landmark for the community. It does not itself change traffic rules, expand highway capacity or provide veterans’ benefits. Donated or granted funds must cover initial markers; the existing law also assigns TxDOT marker repair, replacement and grounds maintenance. Final law; marker funding and maintenance law.
The latest fiscal note anticipated no significant state fiscal impact, with costs absorbed using existing resources, and no local-government fiscal impact. That is not a claim that signs cost nothing. May 12 fiscal note.
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