1-1  By:  Craddick, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)        H.B. No. 835
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 12, 1995;
    1-3  April 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to violation of speed limits required by federal law.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Article XIX, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
   1-11  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
   1-12  by adding Section 169C to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 169C.  FUEL CONSERVATION SPEED LIMIT.  If a person
   1-14  violates a maximum prima facie speed limit imposed under Section
   1-15  169B of this Act and the person was not traveling at a speed, as
   1-16  alleged in the citation if not contested by the person or as
   1-17  alleged in the complaint and found by the court, that is greater
   1-18  than the maximum prima facie speed limit for the location that has
   1-19  been established under this Act, other than under Section 169B,
   1-20  information in the custody of the department concerning the
   1-21  violation is confidential.  The department may not release the
   1-22  information to any person or to another state governmental entity.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-28  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-29  passage, and it is so enacted.
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