By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1741

(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2023; March 16, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; March 30, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 30, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1741 By: Hancock

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 in Webb County.

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

SECTION 1. Section 623.382(a), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The commission may authorize the City of Laredo to issue permits for the movement of oversize or overweight vehicles carrying cargo in Webb County on the following roadways:

(1) Farm-to-Market Road 1472 between its intersection with State Highway Loop 20 and the northernmost of its intersections with World Trade Center Loop;

(2) Farm-to-Market Road 1472 between the northernmost of its intersections with World Trade Center Loop and its intersection with State Highway 255 [Hachar Loop, if the Hachar Loop project in Webb County is constructed];

(3) Hachar Loop between its intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1472 and its intersection with Interstate Highway 35, if the Hachar Loop project in Webb County is constructed; [and]

(4) Beltway Parkway between its intersection with Hachar Loop and its intersection with Interstate Highway 35, if the Hachar Loop project in Webb County is constructed;

(5) State Highway 255 between the Laredo-Colombia Solidarity International Bridge and its intersection with Interstate Highway 35; and

(6) Farm-to-Market Road 3338 between its intersection with State Highway 255 and its intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1472.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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