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. 1-30 * * * * *