By: Ogden S.B. No. 1016 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to speed limits on highways near institutions of higher 1-2 education. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 545.357, Transportation Code, is amended 1-5 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 545.357. Public Hearing to Consider Speed Limits Where 1-7 Certain Schools Are Located. (a) The governing body of a 1-8 municipality in which a public or private elementary or secondary 1-9 school or an institution of higher education as defined by Section 1-10 61.003(8) or (15), Education Code, is located shall on request hold 1-11 a public hearing at least once each calendar year to consider prima 1-12 facie speed limits on a highway in the municipality, including a 1-13 highway of the state highway system, near the school or institution 1-14 of higher education. 1-15 (b) If a county road outside the state highway system is 1-16 located within 500 feet of a public or private elementary or 1-17 secondary school or an institution of higher education that is not 1-18 in a municipality, the commissioners court of the county on request 1-19 shall hold a public hearing at least once each calendar year to 1-20 consider the prima facie speed limit on the road near the school or 1-21 institution of higher education. 1-22 (c) A municipal governing body or commissioners court on 1-23 request may hold one public hearing for all public and private 2-1 elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher 2-2 education in its jurisdiction. 2-3 (d) The Texas Transportation Commission, on request, shall 2-4 hold a public hearing at least once each calendar year to consider 2-5 prima facie speed limits on highways in the state highway system 2-6 that are near public or private elementary or secondary schools or 2-7 institutions of higher education. 2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. < By: Ogden