Bill Text: TX HB1741 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 1741 (Prior Session Legislation)

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

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



	By: Lucio III (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)	H.B. No. 1741
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2015;
	May 6, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Transportation; May 19, 2015, reported favorably by the following
	vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2015, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	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.

	* * * * *