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HB5597 • 2025

Relating to the definition of a Galveston County Port.

Relating to the definition of a Galveston County Port.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Leo Wilson | Cain | Canales | Holt
Last action
2025-05-01
Official status
05/01/2025 H Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Relating to the definition of a Galveston County Port.

Relating to the definition of a Galveston County Port.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the definition of a Galveston County Port.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  2. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.

  3. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  4. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  5. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  6. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  7. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  8. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  9. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Transportation

  10. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the definition of a Galveston County Port.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 5597 - Introduced version - Bill Text

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.