By:  Craddick                                          H.B. No. 187
       73R1786 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to creation of an offense concerning speed limits required
    1-3  by federal law.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article XIX, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-6  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-7  by adding Section 169C to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 169C.  PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF FUEL CONSERVATION SPEED
    1-9  LIMIT.  (a)  If a person violates a maximum prima facie speed limit
   1-10  imposed under Section 169B of this Act and the person was not
   1-11  traveling at a speed, as alleged in the citation if not contested
   1-12  by the person or as alleged in the complaint and found by the
   1-13  court, that is greater than the maximum prima facie speed limit for
   1-14  the location that has been established under this Act, other than
   1-15  under Section 169B, the person is guilty of an offense of
   1-16  unnecessary waste of a resource.
   1-17        (b)  An offense committed under this section is punishable
   1-18  only by a fine of $5.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-1  passage, and it is so enacted.