By Black                                              H.B. No. 1896
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to agreements with other states regarding the issuance of
    1-3  permits for the transportation of a vehicle and its load or a
    1-4  combination of vehicles and load that exceed legal size or weight
    1-5  limitations.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  (a)  "Permit" means any permit issued by the
    1-8  Texas Department of Transportation, in accordance with law,
    1-9  authorizing the transportation of a vehicle and its load or a
   1-10  combination of vehicles and load that exceed legal size and weight
   1-11  limits.
   1-12        "Commission" means the Texas Transportation Commission.
   1-13        "Department" means the Texas Department of Transportation.
   1-14        (b)  The Commission may authorize the executive director to
   1-15  enter into an agreement or agreements with duly authorized
   1-16  officials of other states to provide the issuance of permits on
   1-17  behalf of this State and other states.
   1-18        (c)  A permit issued under this Act by another state on
   1-19  behalf of this State is valid as if issued by this State, and the
   1-20  permittee is subject to all applicable laws of this State and rules
   1-21  of the commission.
   1-22        (d)  The department may adopt such rules as may be necessary
   1-23  to carry out the provisions of this Act and of any agreement
    2-1  entered into under this Act.
    2-2        (e)  All fees collected for other states under the provisions
    2-3  of an agreement entered into under this Act shall be distributed to
    2-4  the appropriate state at the direction of the Department to carry
    2-5  out the provisions of such agreement.  There is hereby created a
    2-6  special fund account in the State Treasury, to be known as the
    2-7  Permit Distributive Fund, and all such fees collected shall be
    2-8  deposited and disbursed through such account.
    2-9        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.