By Elkins                                        H.B. No. 307

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                                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.