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Panel approves bill to centralize state highway‑naming requests and limit sign clutter
Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy and Technology Standing Committee · March 3, 2026
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Summary
Lawmakers approved HB491 to create an off‑season, bipartisan committee to vet and submit a single road‑naming proposal to the Legislature, set spacing and sign limits, and include a cooling‑off period; members debated whether the cooling‑off period should be two or five years.
Representative Schallenberger told the committee HB491 aims to reduce the growing number of individual state highway naming bills and to avoid stacking multiple memorial names on the same highway segment. The proposal would create an off‑season road‑naming committee (bipartisan, with representation…
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