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.