Bill Text: TX HB1741 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1741 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1741-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1741 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1741-Comm_Sub.html
84R17498 JRR-D | |||
By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 1741 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1741: | |||
By: Pickett | C.S.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. |