Bill Text: TX SB688 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to height limitations for certain vehicles transporting seed cotton or cotton.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB688 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB688-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Perry S.B. No. 688
(In the Senate - Filed February 7, 2019; March 1, 2019, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
March 13, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; March 13, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to height limitations for certain vehicles transporting
seed cotton or cotton.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 622.101, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 622.101. VEHICLES [VEHICLE] TRANSPORTING CERTAIN
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT.
SECTION 2. Section 622.101, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
follows:
(b) A single motor vehicle that transports agricultural
products under Subsection (a) [this section] must be registered
under Section 504.505.
(c) A truck-tractor operated in combination with a
semitrailer and used to transport seed cotton or cotton may not be
operated on a highway or road if the vehicle is higher than 14 feet 6
inches.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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