By Pitts H.B. No. 128 75R940 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the governing body of a municipality 1-3 to declare a speed limit for a farm-to-market or ranch-to-market 1-4 road located in the municipality. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 545.359, Transportation Code, is amended 1-7 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 545.359. CONFLICTING DESIGNATED SPEED LIMITS. (a) An 1-9 order of the Texas Transportation Commission declaring a speed 1-10 limit on a part of a designated or marked route of the state 1-11 highway system made under Section 545.353 or 545.362 supersedes any 1-12 conflicting designated speed established under Sections 545.356 and 1-13 545.358. 1-14 (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a designated speed 1-15 established under Section 545.356 for a farm-to-market or a 1-16 ranch-to-market road. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.