2025 · Regular session · House bill
HB2763
HB2763 designates the building that housed the Texas Department of Transportation's Starr County area engineer office on January 1, 2025, as the Eduardo “Eddie” Gracia, Jr., P.E., Area Engineer and Maintenance Facility.
Official caption: Relating to the designation of a Texas Department of Transportation building in Starr County as the Eduardo "Eddie" Gracia, Jr., P.E., Area Engineer and Maintenance Facility.
Official report lists House author(s): Guillen. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
Selected points from the published explanation. Follow each point to its source-linked context; conditions and limits may matter.
- HB2763 designates the building that housed the Texas Department of Transportation's Starr County area engineer office on January 1, 2025, as the Eduardo “Eddie” Gracia, Jr., P.E., Area Engineer and Maintenance Facility.
- TxDOT must design and construct markers identifying the facility and update existing signs along its highway, subject to private funding.
What does it do?
HB2763 designates the building that housed the Texas Department of Transportation’s Starr County area engineer office on January 1, 2025, as the Eduardo “Eddie” Gracia, Jr., P.E., Area Engineer and Maintenance Facility. The law took effect May 24, 2025. It names an identified existing building; it does not order construction of a new facility. Final law
TxDOT must design and construct markers identifying the facility and update existing signs along its highway, subject to private funding. The department is not required to do that work unless a grant or donation of private funds covers the relevant marker or sign-update cost. Money received for that purpose goes into the state highway fund. The naming itself is not conditioned on a donation.
What changed along the way?
All five listed versions have the same operative text; differences are printing markers and enactment certifications. The amendment index lists no amendments, and both committees reported the bill without amendments. All versions
The House passed it 131–0, with three present but not voting; the Senate passed it 31–0. Those votes met the immediate-effect threshold, and the governor signed it May 24, 2025. The fallback September 1 date did not apply. Official history
For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.
Official bill versions
Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.
Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
The law provides commemorative recognition and, if funded, corresponding facility and highway identification. Private donors would cover the marker/sign work that triggers TxDOT’s obligation. It creates no new transportation service, tax break or payment to the person honored or his family.
The May 2 fiscal note, the latest listed and based on unchanged text, anticipates no significant state fiscal effect, assumes associated costs can be absorbed with existing resources, and anticipates no local fiscal effect. The March 25 note agrees. Neither gives a dollar estimate for signage or a multiyear cost table.
Official sources
- Bill history and latest recorded action
- Bill versions, analyses and fiscal notes
- Action history and votes
- Amendment index
Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.
