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Senate Bill 1373 |
Senate Author: Lucio |
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Effective: 5-19-09 |
House Sponsor: Pickett |
Senate Bill 1373 amends Transportation Code provisions relating to permits for oversize or overweight vehicles by certain port authorities. The bill requires the fees collected for oversize and overweight vehicle permits, less administrative costs, to be used solely to provide funds for the maintenance and improvements of state highways in certain counties, rather than to make payments to the Texas Department of Transportation to provide funds for the maintenance of the highways. The bill requires the Texas Transportation Commission, with the consent of the port authority, to designate the most direct route from the Gateway International Bridge or the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates to the entrance of the Port of Brownsville using specific highways. The bill requires the commission, if it designates a route or changes the route designated under these provisions, to notify the port authority of the route not later than the 60th day before the date that the designation takes effect. The bill requires a port authority permit to include a statement of the route designated under these provisions. The bill removes the June 1, 2009, expiration date of the law governing port authority permits for oversize and overweight vehicles.