Bill Text: TX HB5597 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the definition of a Galveston County Port.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-01 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [HB5597 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB5597-Introduced.html

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By: Leo Wilson H.B. No. 5597

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the definition of a Galveston County Port.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 66.002(3), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(3) "Galveston County port" means a place in Galveston
or Chambers County into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel
departs and the waterway leading to that place from the Gulf of
Mexico.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.