Bill Text: TX HB1741 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles in certain counties.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1741 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1741-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1741 | ||
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| relating to route designation for the issuance of a permit for the | ||
| movement of oversize and overweight vehicles in certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 623.219(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) For a permit issued by a port authority located in a | ||
| county that borders the United Mexican States, the commission | ||
| shall, with the consent of the port authority, designate the most | ||
| direct route from: | ||
| (1) the Gateway International Bridge or the Veterans | ||
| International Bridge at Los Tomates to the entrance of the Port of | ||
| Brownsville using State Highways 48 and 4 or United States Highways | ||
| 77 and 83 or using United States Highway 77 and United States | ||
| Highway 83, East Loop Corridor, and State Highway 4; and | ||
| (2) the Free Trade International Bridge to: | ||
| (A) the entrance of the Port of Brownsville using | ||
| Farm-to-Market Road 509, United States Highways 77 and 83, | ||
| Farm-to-Market Road 511, State Highway 550, and East Loop (State | ||
| Highway 32); | ||
| (B) the eastern entrance of the Port of Harlingen | ||
| using Farm-to-Market Road 509, United States Highway 77 Business, | ||
| and Farm-to-Market Road 1846; | ||
| (C) the western entrance of the Port of Harlingen | ||
| using Farm-to-Market Roads 509 and 106; | ||
| (D) the southern entrance of the Harlingen | ||
| Industrial Park using Farm-to-Market Road 509; and | ||
| (E) the southern entrance of the Harlingen | ||
| Aerotropolis at Valley International Airport using Farm-to-Market | ||
| Road 509. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1741 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1741 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
