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Senate committee hears technical fix to Port of Brownsville overweight‑corridor language
Summary
A bill to make wording consistent across statutes for three Port of Brownsville international bridges was explained to the Senate Transportation Committee; Port officials said the measure does not expand the authorized overweight corridor but clarifies that overweight permits apply in both directions on each bridge.
Senator Hannah Hinojosa on behalf of the author presented Senate Bill 2841 to the Senate Committee on Transportation, saying the bill corrects inconsistent wording in administrative and statutory language governing the Port of Brownsville’s overweight corridor and the three international bridges that serve it.
The bill, Hinojosa said, does not expand the existing overweight corridor but seeks “parity” in how the Gateway International Bridge, Veterans International Bridge and the Free Trade International Bridge are described so the same overweight…
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