1-1 By: Craddick, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Sibley) H.B. No. 187 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 1993; 1-3 April 21, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 28, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 28, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Harris of Dallas x 1-9 Rosson x 1-10 Carriker x 1-11 Henderson x 1-12 Leedom x 1-13 Lucio x 1-14 Luna x 1-15 Nelson x 1-16 Patterson x 1-17 Shelley x 1-18 Sibley x 1-19 West x 1-20 Whitmire x 1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-22 AN ACT 1-23 relating to violation of speed limits required by federal law. 1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-25 SECTION 1. Article XIX, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on 1-26 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 1-27 by adding Section 169C to read as follows: 1-28 Sec. 169C. FUEL CONSERVATION SPEED LIMIT. If a person 1-29 violates a maximum prima facie speed limit imposed under Section 1-30 169B of this Act and the person was not traveling at a speed, as 1-31 alleged in the citation if not contested by the person or as 1-32 alleged in the complaint and found by the court, that is greater 1-33 than the maximum prima facie speed limit for the location that has 1-34 been established under this Act, other than under Section 169B, 1-35 information in the custody of the department concerning the 1-36 violation is confidential. The department may not release the 1-37 information to any person or to another state governmental entity. 1-38 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-43 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-44 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-45 * * * * * 1-46 Austin, 1-47 Texas 1-48 May 28, 1993 1-49 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-50 President of the Senate 1-51 Sir: 1-52 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B. 1-53 No. 187, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed 1-54 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do 1-55 pass and be printed. 1-56 Harris of 1-57 Dallas, Chairman 1-58 * * * * * 1-59 WITNESSES 1-60 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 187.