By: Hinojosa of Nueces  S.B. No. 2841
         (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 2025; April 7, 2025, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
  April 28, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 28, 2025,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2841 By:  West
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the route designation for a permit for the movement of
  oversize and overweight vehicles that serve a deepwater seaport in
  a county that borders the United Mexican States.
         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:
               (1)  between [from]:
                     (A) [(1)]  the Gateway International Bridge or
  the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates and [to] the
  entrance of the Port of Brownsville using:
                           (i)  State Highways 48 and 4;
                           (ii)  [or] United States Highways 77 and 83;
  or
                           (iii)  [using] United States Highway 77,
  [and] United States Highway 83, East Loop Corridor, and State
  Highway 4; and
                     (B) [(2)]  the Free Trade International Bridge
  and [to:
                     [(A)]  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); and
               (2)  from the Free Trade International Bridge to:
                     (A) [(B)]  the eastern entrance of the Port of
  Harlingen using Farm-to-Market Road 509, United States Highway 77
  Business, and Farm-to-Market Road 1846;
                     (B) [(C)]  the western entrance of the Port of
  Harlingen using Farm-to-Market Roads 509 and 106;
                     (C) [(D)]  the southern entrance of the Harlingen
  Industrial Park using Farm-to-Market Road 509; and
                     (D) [(E)]  the southern entrance of the Harlingen
  Aerotropolis at Valley International Airport using Farm-to-Market
  Road 509.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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