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Hidalgo County RMA adopts 2025 legislative agenda to ease overweight permitting and seek higher vehicle fee
Summary
The Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority voted to adopt a legislative agenda that asks the Texas Legislature to allow the authority to accept Department of Public Safety weights for overweight permits, add certain roadways to the overweight corridor and seek an increase in a local vehicle-registration fee to boost transportation revenue.
The Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority on a unanimous voice vote approved a 2025 legislative agenda that asks state lawmakers to let local enforcement-scale weights be accepted for overweight permits, add roadways to the authority's oversized/overweight corridor and consider raising the local mobility portion of the vehicle registration fee.
The board approved Resolution 2025-02 after staff explained that the change to allow Department of Public Safety weight tickets would reduce delays and citations for drivers stopped while carrying loads that could be permitted on short notice. Pilar, a staff member who presented the item, said the current statute allows the RMA to accept weights only from scales approved by the Texas Department of Agriculture and does not recognize DPS's in-field scales.
The legislative priorities adopted by the board ask the Legislature to: add…
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