SB2200 • 2025

Relating to a prohibition on the operation or movement of certain overweight vehicles transporting hazardous materials under certain circumstances; creating a criminal offense.

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Birdwell
Last action: 2025-05-23
Official status: 05/23/2025 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to a prohibition on the operation or movement of certain overweight vehicles transporting hazardous materials under certain circumstances; creating a criminal offense.

What This Bill Does

Relating to a prohibition on the operation or movement of certain overweight vehicles transporting hazardous materials under certain circumstances; creating a criminal offense.

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Bill History

2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Posting rule suspended
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Transportation
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Amendment(s) offered. FA1 Birdwell
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Amended
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Vote recorded in Journal
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Passed to engrossment as amended
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Vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Three day rule suspended
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
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Read 3rd time
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
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Record vote
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Reported engrossed
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Received from the Senate
2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on intent calendar
2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken in committee
2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online
Vote taken in committee
2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Border Security
2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a prohibition on the operation or movement of certain overweight vehicles transporting hazardous materials under certain circumstances; creating a criminal offense.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) SB 2200 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Birdwell

S.B. No. 2200

(LaHood)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a prohibition on the operation or movement of certain

overweight vehicles transporting hazardous materials under certain

circumstances; creating a criminal offense.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 621, Transportation Code,

is amended by adding Section 621.512 to read as follows:

Sec.

621.512.

OPERATION OR MOVEMENT OF CERTAIN OVERWEIGHT

VEHICLES TRANSPORTING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS PROHIBITED UNDER CERTAIN

CIRCUMSTANCES. (a) A person commits an offense if the person

operates or moves an overweight vehicle described by Subsection (b)

on a public highway:

(1)

that is not included in the route designated under

the permit under which the vehicle is operating; or

(2)

without a permit authorizing the movement of the

vehicle and the vehicle exceeds the maximum gross weight authorized

for the vehicle by at least five percent.

(b)

Subsection (a) applies only to an overweight vehicle

with at least three axles that is transporting in a cargo tank

hazardous materials in a quantity requiring placarding by a

regulation issued under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act

(49 U.S.C. Section 5101 et seq.).

(c)

An offense under this section is a felony of the second

degree.

(d)

It is an affirmative defense to prosecution of an

offense under this section that, at the time of the offense, the

vehicle was being operated or moved under the immediate direction

of a law enforcement agency.

(e)

It is an affirmative defense to prosecution of an

offense under Subsection (a)(1) that, at the time of the offense,

the vehicle was being operated or moved in compliance with a permit

authorizing the movement of the vehicle issued by the department or

a political subdivision of this state.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.