By: Lucio III (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 3125
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013;
  May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to route designation for the issuance of a permit for the
  movement of oversize and overweight vehicles in certain counties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 623.219(a), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  For a permit issued by a port authority located in a
  county that borders the United Mexican States, the commission
  shall, with the consent of the port authority, designate the most
  direct route from:
               (1)  the Gateway International Bridge or the Veterans
  International Bridge at Los Tomates to the entrance of the Port of
  Brownsville using State Highways 48 and 4 or United States Highways
  77 and 83 or using United States Highway 77 and United States
  Highway 83, East Loop Corridor, and State Highway 4; and
               (2)  the Free Trade International Bridge to the
  entrance of the Port of Brownsville using Farm-to-Market Road 509,
  United States Highways 77 and 83, Farm-to-Market Road 511, State
  Highway 550, and East Loop (State Highway 32).
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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