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.