By Pitts H.B. No. 130
75R916 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of the commissioners court of a county to
1-3 alter speed limits on county roads.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 545.355(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The commissioners court of a county, for a county road
1-8 or highway outside the limits of the right-of-way of an officially
1-9 designated or marked highway or road of the state highway system
1-10 and outside a municipality, has the same authority to increase
1-11 [alter] prima facie speed limits from the results of an engineering
1-12 and traffic investigation as the Texas Transportation Commission on
1-13 an officially designated or marked highway of the state highway
1-14 system, and may declare a lower speed limit on a county road or
1-15 highway to which this section applies, if the commissioners court
1-16 determines that the prima facie speed limit on the road or highway
1-17 is unreasonable or unsafe. The commissioners court may not modify
1-18 the rule established by Section 545.351(a) or establish a speed
1-19 limit of more than 60 miles per hour.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.