Bill Text: TX HB1969 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of certain permits for the movement of oversize or overweight vehicles on certain highways.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - See remarks for effective date [HB1969 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1969-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1969 |
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relating to the issuance of certain permits for the movement of | ||
oversize or overweight vehicles on certain highways. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 623.322(a), Transportation Code, as | ||
added by Chapter 635 (H.B. 474), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission may authorize a regional mobility | ||
authority to issue permits for the movement of oversize or | ||
overweight vehicles carrying cargo in Hidalgo County on: | ||
(1) the following roads: | ||
(A) U.S. Highway 281 between its intersection | ||
with the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge and its intersection | ||
with State Highway 336; | ||
(B) State Highway 336 between its intersection | ||
with U.S. Highway 281 and its intersection with Farm-to-Market Road | ||
1016; | ||
(C) Farm-to-Market Road 1016 between its | ||
intersection with State Highway 336 and its intersection with | ||
Trinity Road; | ||
(D) Trinity Road between its intersection with | ||
Farm-to-Market Road 1016 and its intersection with Farm-to-Market | ||
Road 396; | ||
(E) Farm-to-Market Road 396 between its | ||
intersection with Trinity Road and its intersection with the | ||
Anzalduas International Bridge; | ||
(F) Farm-to-Market Road 2061 between its | ||
intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 3072 and its intersection | ||
with U.S. Highway 281; | ||
(G) U.S. Highway 281 between its intersection | ||
with the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge and its intersection | ||
with Spur 29; | ||
(H) Spur 29 between its intersection with U.S. | ||
Highway 281 and its intersection with Doffin Canal Road; [ |
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(I) Doffin Canal Road between its intersection | ||
with the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge and its intersection | ||
with Spur 29; [ |
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(J) Farm-to-Market Road 1015 between its | ||
intersection with U.S. Highway 281 and its intersection with U.S. | ||
Highway 83 Business; | ||
(K) U.S. Highway 83 Business between its | ||
intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1015 and its intersection | ||
with South Pleasantview Drive; | ||
(L) Farm-to-Market Road 1015 between its | ||
intersection with U.S. Highway 83 Business and its intersection | ||
with Mile 9 Road North; and | ||
(M) Mile 9 Road North between its intersection | ||
with Farm-to-Market Road 1015 and its intersection with Joe | ||
Stephens Avenue; or | ||
(2) another route designated by the commission in | ||
consultation with the authority. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) This section takes effect only if the Act of | ||
the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, relating to | ||
nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes | ||
becomes law. | ||
(b) Subchapter S, Chapter 623, Transportation Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 623.370 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 623.370. BOND. (a) The authority shall file with the | ||
Texas Department of Transportation a bond in an amount set by the | ||
Texas Department of Transportation under Subsection (b), payable to | ||
the Texas Department of Transportation, and conditioned that the | ||
authority will pay to the Texas Department of Transportation the | ||
amount by which the annual cost to repair any damage to roads and | ||
highways subject to this subchapter from the movement of oversize | ||
and overweight vehicles for which permits are issued under this | ||
subchapter exceeds the annual amount paid to the Texas Department | ||
of Transportation under Section 623.364(b). | ||
(b) The Texas Department of Transportation shall set the | ||
amount of the bond required under Subsection (a) in an amount equal | ||
to the estimated annual cost to repair any damage to roads and | ||
highways subject to this subchapter from the movement of oversize | ||
and overweight vehicles for which permits are issued under this | ||
subchapter. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) This section takes effect only if the Act of | ||
the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, relating to | ||
nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes does | ||
not become law. | ||
(b) Subchapter Q, Chapter 623, Transportation Code, as | ||
added by Chapter 635 (H.B. 474), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2013, is amended by adding Section 623.329 to read | ||
as follows: | ||
Sec. 623.329. BOND. (a) The authority shall file with the | ||
Texas Department of Transportation a bond in an amount set by the | ||
Texas Department of Transportation under Subsection (b), payable to | ||
the Texas Department of Transportation, and conditioned that the | ||
authority will pay to the Texas Department of Transportation the | ||
amount by which the annual cost to repair any damage to roads and | ||
highways subject to this subchapter from the movement of oversize | ||
and overweight vehicles for which permits are issued under this | ||
subchapter exceeds the annual amount paid to the Texas Department | ||
of Transportation under Section 623.323(b). | ||
(b) The Texas Department of Transportation shall set the | ||
amount of the bond required under Subsection (a) in an amount equal | ||
to the estimated annual cost to repair any damage to roads and | ||
highways subject to this subchapter from the movement of oversize | ||
and overweight vehicles for which permits are issued under this | ||
subchapter. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1969 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1969 on May 29, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1969 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
__________________ | ||
Governor |