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House Bill 1353 |
House Author: Elkins et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Williams |
House Bill 1353 amends Transportation Code provisions relating to speeds that are lawful unless a special hazard exists that requires a slower speed. The bill makes 70 miles per hour a lawful speed on a highway numbered by Texas or the United States outside an urban district and makes 60 mph a lawful speed on a highway that is outside an urban district and not a highway numbered by Texas or the United States. The bill makes an exception for a school bus, requiring the school bus to comply with certain prescribed speeds. The bill removes speeds that are lawful for certain vehicles in nighttime, for certain trucks, and for vehicles outside an urban district for which a speed limit is not otherwise specified. The bill requires an entity that establishes or alters a speed limit on certain highways under authority granted by law to establish the same speed limit for daytime and nighttime and, among other provisions, increases to 75 mph the maximum speed that the entities may set, with a certain exception.