Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 363

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Relating to: permits for the overweight transport of pig iron. (FE)

Bus and truck — Taxation or registration Recycling Transportation department of — Roads

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, no person may operate on a highway any vehicle that

exceeds statutory limits on size or weight. However, the Department of

Transportation may issue permits authorizing the transportation of metallic or

nonmetallic scrap for the purpose of recycling or processing on a vehicle or

combination of vehicles that exceeds statutory weight or length limitations and for

the return of the vehicle or combination of vehicles when empty.

Under administrative rules promulgated by DOT, “recyclable scrap” is defined

as “metallic or non-metallic material in waste for which there exists a commercially

demonstrated processing or manufacturing technology which uses the material as

a raw material, and which is transported for use as such a raw material.”

This bill, for purposes of the overweight or oversize scrap permit, creates a

definition for “metallic or nonmetallic scrap” that is functionally identical to DOT's

definition for “recyclable scrap,” except that the new definition explicitly includes pig

iron.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DOT

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Nov 10, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0