Amend CSHB 777 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 623.011, Transportation Code, is amended by amending Subsection (g) and adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
(g) Except as provided by Subsection (h), a [A] vehicle operating under a permit issued under this section may exceed the maximum allowable gross weight tolerance allowance by not more than five percent, regardless of the weight of any one axle or tandem axle, if no axle or tandem axle exceeds the tolerance permitted by Subsection (a).
(h) A vehicle or combination of vehicles operating under both a permit issued under this section and a permit issued under Section 623.321 may operate at weight limits that do not exceed those prescribed by Section 622.041.