By: Landgraf H.B. No. 2855
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a study by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute on the
impacts to state and local roads and bridges from increasing
maximum weight limits for certain vehicles transporting sand.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) The Texas A&M Transportation Institute
shall conduct a study on the estimated impacts to state and local
roads and bridges, including impacts on traffic volume and safety
on those roads and bridges, resulting from increasing the maximum
allowable weight limits established by Subtitle E, Title 7,
Transportation Code, for a truck-tractor and semitrailer
combination transporting sand at the gross weights and axle
requirements specified by Section 623.402, Transportation Code, as
added by Chapter 108 (S.B. 1524), Acts of the 85th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2017.
(b) Not later than October 1, 2020, the Texas A&M
Transportation Institute shall submit a report on the results of
the study to each standing committee of the legislature with
jurisdiction over transportation matters.
(c) This Act expires January 1, 2021.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2019.