1-1     By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 934
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Special Committee on Border Affairs;
 1-4     March 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the issuance of permits for overweight vehicles in
 1-9     certain counties.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 623.214, Transportation
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  Fees collected under Subsection (a) shall be used solely
1-14     to provide funds for the payments provided for under Section
1-15     623.213 less administrative costs which shall not exceed 15 [10]
1-16     percent of the fees collected.  Such fees shall be deposited in
1-17     State Highway Fund 6.
1-18           SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 623.215, Transportation
1-19     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-20           (a)  A permit issued under this subchapter must include:
1-21                 (1)  the name of the applicant;
1-22                 (2)  the date of issuance;
1-23                 (3)  the signature of the director of the port
1-24     authority;
1-25                 (4)  a statement of the kind of cargo being transported
1-26     over State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 between the Gateway
1-27     International Bridge and the entrance to the Port of Brownsville,
1-28     or over State Highways 48 and 4 and United States Highways 77 and
1-29     83 between Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates and the
1-30     entrance to the Port of Brownsville, the maximum weight and
1-31     dimensions of the equipment, and the kind and weight of each
1-32     commodity to be transported provided the gross weight of such
1-33     equipment and commodities shall not exceed 125,000 pounds;
1-34                 (5)  a statement of any condition on which the permit
1-35     is issued;
1-36                 (6)  a statement that the cargo shall be transported
1-37     over the most direct route from the Gateway International Bridge or
1-38     the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates to the entrance of
1-39     the Port of Brownsville using State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 or
1-40     United States Highways 77 and 83;
1-41                 (7)  the name of the driver of the vehicle in which the
1-42     cargo is to be transported; and
1-43                 (8)  the location where the cargo was loaded.
1-44           SECTION 3.  Section 623.219, Transportation Code, is amended
1-45     to read as follows:
1-46           Sec. 623.219.  EXPIRATION.  This Act expires March 1, 2005
1-47     [2001].
1-48           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-49     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-50     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-51     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-52     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-53     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-54     passage, and it is so enacted.
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