By Elkins H.B. No. 307 75R2573 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the commissioners courts of certain 1-3 counties to alter speed limits on certain highways. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 545.355, Transportation Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) The commissioners court of a county with a population of 1-8 more than 2.8 million may establish from the results of an 1-9 engineering and traffic investigation a speed limit of not more 1-10 than 70 miles per hour on any part of a highway of that county that 1-11 is a limited-access or controlled-access highway, regardless of the 1-12 location of the part of the highway. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.