Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 3871	House Author:  Krause
Effective:  9-1-19	Senate Sponsor:  Lucio

            House Bill 3871 amends the Transportation Code to include open‑enrollment charter schools in the scope of provisions requiring a county commissioners court, municipal governing body, or the Texas Transportation Commission to hold a public hearing to consider speed limits on roads near certain schools or institutions of higher education if requested by the school's or institution's governing body. The bill requires those applicable entities to conduct an engineering and traffic investigation for a highway or road that is the subject of such a request if the school's or institution's governing body requests the investigation and provides for the authority of those entities to alter the speed limits on review of the investigation results. The bill authorizes a county commissioners court to declare a lower speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on certain county roads or highways within 500 feet of an elementary, secondary, or open‑enrollment charter school or an institution of higher education, if approved under this process.