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2025 · Regular session · Senate bill
SB1230
SB1230 designates Farm-to-Market Road 10 in Panola County as the Deputy Sheriff Chris Dickerson Memorial Highway.
Official caption: Relating to the designation of Farm-to-Market Road 10 in Panola County as the Deputy Sheriff Chris Dickerson Memorial Highway.
Official report lists Senate author(s): Hughes. 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
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- SB1230 designates Farm-to-Market Road 10 in Panola County as the Deputy Sheriff Chris Dickerson Memorial Highway.
- TxDOT must design and construct markers bearing the memorial name and place them at each end and appropriate intermediate sites, subject to grant or donation funding that covers design, construction and erection.
What does it do?
SB1230 designates Farm-to-Market Road 10 in Panola County as the Deputy Sheriff Chris Dickerson Memorial Highway. The memorial name is in addition to any other designation; the act does not change the road number or authorize a new road. Signed June 20, 2025, it took effect September 1, 2025. Final law; Official history.
TxDOT must design and construct markers bearing the memorial name and place them at each end and appropriate intermediate sites, subject to grant or donation funding that covers design, construction and erection. The existing general rule also requires TxDOT to repair or replace markers and maintain their grounds. Naming the road does not establish that the necessary funds have arrived or the signs are already installed. Final law, section 1; Existing marker-funding and maintenance rule.
What changed along the way?
The bill adds the memorial designation to the Transportation Code and includes an instruction to renumber the new provision as needed to avoid duplicate section numbers. The introduced and Senate committee versions used 225.243; the Senate-passed, House committee and enrolled versions use 225.262. The road, memorial name, marker requirements and effective date remain unchanged across the five versions. All text versions; Final law.
Both committees reported without amendments, and the official amendment index lists no amendments. The observed section-number change is not a change to which road receives the memorial name. Amendment index; Final law.
For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.
Official bill versions
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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
The law provides a public memorial to Deputy Sheriff Chris Dickerson on this Panola County road. Its practical work is signage, with the initial work conditioned on outside funding and ongoing marker duties assigned by existing law. It does not establish a family compensation benefit, change traffic rules or fund highway expansion. No economic or traffic benefit is quantified. Final law; Existing marker-funding and maintenance rule.
The May 2 fiscal note anticipates no significant state fiscal impact, assuming costs can be absorbed with existing resources, and no local-government fiscal impact. That estimate does not waive the grant/donation prerequisite. The act makes no new appropriation. Fiscal note.
Official sources
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Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.
