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.)
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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.
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