86R13296 AAF-D
 
  By: Bailes H.B. No. 3161
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the operation of a vehicle transporting equipment used
  to load timber.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 623.321(a), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The department may issue a permit under this subchapter,
  as an alternative to a permit issued under Section 623.011,
  authorizing a person to operate a vehicle or combination of
  vehicles that is being used to transport unrefined timber, wood
  chips, or woody biomass or equipment used to load timber on a
  vehicle in a county identified as a timber producing county in the
  most recent edition of the Texas A&M Forest Service's Harvest
  Trends Report as of May 15, 2013, at the weight limits prescribed by
  Subsection (b).
         SECTION 2.  Section 623.323(f), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (f)  This section does not apply to a vehicle or combination
  of vehicles that are being used to transport unrefined timber, wood
  chips, or woody biomass or equipment used to load timber on a
  vehicle from:
               (1)  a storage yard to the place of first processing; or
               (2)  outside this state to a place of first processing
  in this state.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.