Bill Text: TX SB1921 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-19 - Left pending in committee [SB1921 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1921-Introduced.html
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By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 1921 |
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relating to the 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(b), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) For a permit issued by a port authority located in a | ||
county that is adjacent to at least two counties with a population | ||
of 550,000 or more, the commission shall, with the consent of the | ||
port authority, designate the most direct route from: | ||
(1) the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 523 and | ||
Moller Road to the entrance of Port Freeport using Farm-to-Market | ||
Roads 523 and 1495; | ||
(2) the intersection of State Highway 288 and Chlorine | ||
Road to the entrance of Port Freeport using State Highway 288; | ||
(3) the intersection of State Highway 288 and Chlorine | ||
Road to the entrance of Port Freeport using State Highways 288 and | ||
332 and Farm-to-Market Roads 523 and 1495; | ||
(4) the intersection of North Velasco Boulevard and | ||
South Avenue J in the city of Freeport to the entrance of Port | ||
Freeport using North Velasco Boulevard and Farm-to-Market Road | ||
1495; [ |
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(5) 21441 Loop 419 in the city of Sweeny to the | ||
entrance of Port Freeport using Loop 419, State Highways 35 and 36, | ||
and Farm-to-Market Road 1495; and | ||
(6) 5261 7th Street in Bay City to the entrance of Port | ||
Freeport using State Highway 35, Loop 419, State Highway 36, and | ||
Farm-to-Market Road 1495. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |