Relating to the route designation for a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a deepwater seaport in a county that borders the United Mexican States.

89(R) SB 2841 - Senate Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Hinojosa of Nueces

S.B. No. 2841

(In the Senate - Filed March 14, 2025; April 7, 2025, read

first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;

April 28, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 28, 2025,

sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2841

By: West

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

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

oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a deepwater seaport in

a county that borders the United Mexican States.

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
:

(1) between
[
from
]:

(A)
[
(1)
] the Gateway International Bridge or

the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates
and
[
to
] the

entrance of the Port of Brownsville using
:

(i)
State Highways 48 and 4
;

(ii)
[
or
] United States Highways 77 and 83
;

or

(iii)
[
using
] United States Highway 77
,

[
and
] United States Highway 83, East Loop Corridor, and State

Highway 4; and

(B)
[
(2)
] 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);
and

(2) from the Free Trade International Bridge to:

(A)
[
(B)
] the eastern entrance of the Port of

Harlingen using Farm-to-Market Road 509, United States Highway 77

Business, and Farm-to-Market Road 1846;

(B)
[
(C)
] the western entrance of the Port of

Harlingen using Farm-to-Market Roads 509 and 106;

(C)
[
(D)
] the southern entrance of the Harlingen

Industrial Park using Farm-to-Market Road 509; and

(D)
[
(E)
] the southern entrance of the Harlingen

Aerotropolis at Valley International Airport using Farm-to-Market

Road 509.

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

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