S.B. No. 1465
  3-1                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
  3-2           Amend S.B. 1465 by striking Section 1 of the bill and
  3-3     substituting the following:
  3-4           SECTION 1.  Section 5, Chapter 42, General Laws, Acts of the
  3-5     41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6701d-11,
  3-6     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subsection
  3-7     (b), as amended by Section 2, Chapter 488, and Section 5, Chapter
  3-8     1052, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, and by
  3-9     adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
 3-10           (b)  No person, firm, corporation, company, co-partnership,
 3-11     or association shall load, or cause to be loaded, a vehicle for
 3-12     operation on the public highways of this state which exceeds the
 3-13     weight limitations for operation of that vehicle.  Intent to
 3-14     violate those limitations is presumed if the loaded vehicle exceeds
 3-15     by 15 percent or more the applicable weight limitation for
 3-16     operation of that vehicle.  Except as provided by Subsection (d) of
 3-17     this section, this <This> subsection does not apply to the loading
 3-18     or causing to be loaded of an agricultural or a forestry commodity
 3-19     prior to such point in the processing of the commodity which
 3-20     changes the natural state of the commodity.
 3-21           (d)  The exemption provided by Subsection (b) of this section
 3-22     for loading or causing to be loaded unprocessed agricultural and
 3-23     forestry commodities does not apply to the loading or causing to be
 3-24     loaded of unprocessed grain at a location that is in a county
 3-25     adjacent to the Republic of Mexico but more than six miles from the
 3-26     Mexican-United States border by a person other than an individual
 3-27     who has produced the grain.
  4-1           (e)  In this section, "grain" has the meaning assigned by
  4-2     Section 14.001, Agriculture Code.
  4-3     73R11107 MJW-D                                                Solis