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.