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HB5218 • 2025

Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a deepwater seaport on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a deepwater seaport on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Lopez, Janie | Guillen | Martinez | Money | Curry
Last action
2025-05-01
Official status
05/01/2025 H Left pending in committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a deepwater seaport on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a deepwater seaport on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a deepwater seaport on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  2. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  3. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  4. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  5. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  6. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Transportation

  7. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a deepwater seaport on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 5218 - Introduced version - Bill Text

By: Lopez of Cameron

H.B. No. 5218

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for

the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a

deepwater seaport on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

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)
between
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)
between
the Free Trade International Bridge
and

[
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)

SECTION 2. This bill is applicable only to the designated

routes for the Port of Brownsville.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.