By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 934
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the issuance of permits for overweight vehicles in
 1-2     certain counties.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 623.214, Transportation
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  Fees collected under Subsection (a) shall be used solely
 1-7     to provide funds for the payments provided for under Section
 1-8     623.213 less administrative costs which shall not exceed 15 [10]
 1-9     percent of the fees collected.  Such fees shall be deposited in
1-10     State Highway Fund 6.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 623.215, Transportation
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  A permit issued under this subchapter must include:
1-14                 (1)  the name of the applicant;
1-15                 (2)  the date of issuance;
1-16                 (3)  the signature of the director of the port
1-17     authority;
1-18                 (4)  a statement of the kind of cargo being transported
1-19     over State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 between the Gateway
1-20     International Bridge and the entrance to the Port of Brownsville,
1-21     or over State Highways 48 and 4 and United States Highways 77 and
1-22     83 between Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates and the
1-23     entrance to the Port of Brownsville, the maximum weight and
1-24     dimensions of the equipment, and the kind and weight of each
 2-1     commodity to be transported provided the gross weight of such
 2-2     equipment and commodities shall not exceed 125,000 pounds;
 2-3                 (5)  a statement of any condition on which the permit
 2-4     is issued;
 2-5                 (6)  a statement that the cargo shall be transported
 2-6     over the most direct route from the Gateway International Bridge or
 2-7     the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates to the entrance of
 2-8     the Port of Brownsville using State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 or
 2-9     United States Highways 77 and 83;
2-10                 (7)  the name of the driver of the vehicle in which the
2-11     cargo is to be transported; and
2-12                 (8)  the location where the cargo was loaded.
2-13           SECTION 3.  Section 623.219, Transportation Code, is amended
2-14     to read as follows:
2-15           Sec. 623.219.  EXPIRATION.  This Act expires March 1, 2005
2-16     [2001].
2-17           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23     passage, and it is so enacted.