By Clark H.B. No. 2800 75R7274 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of certain municipalities to set speed 1-3 limits. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 545.356, Transportation Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (b), a municipality 1-8 with a population of less than 1,000 that contains two or more 1-9 highways that are designated as United States highways may by 1-10 ordinance alter the prima facie speed limit on any road or highway 1-11 in the state highway system located in the municipality without an 1-12 engineering and traffic investigation. The prima facie speed limit 1-13 may not be set lower than 30 miles per hour or higher than 60 miles 1-14 per hour. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.