1-1     By:  Ogden                                            S.B. No. 1016

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 1997; March 11, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; April 1, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 1, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Ogden

 1-7     Amend S.B. No. 1016 on page 1, line 20, by inserting "(8) or (15)"

 1-8     between "61.003" and the comma.

 1-9                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-10                                   AN ACT

1-11     relating to speed limits on highways near institutions of higher

1-12     education.

1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-14           SECTION 1.  Section 545.357, Transportation Code, is amended

1-15     to read as follows:

1-16           Sec. 545.357.  Public Hearing to Consider Speed Limits Where

1-17     Certain Schools Are Located.  (a)  The governing body of a

1-18     municipality in which a public or private elementary or secondary

1-19     school or an institution of higher education as defined by Section

1-20     61.003, Education Code, is located shall on request hold a public

1-21     hearing at least once each calendar year to consider prima facie

1-22     speed limits on a highway in the municipality, including a highway

1-23     of the state highway system, near the school or institution of

1-24     higher education.

1-25           (b)  If a county road outside the state highway system is

1-26     located within 500 feet of a public or private elementary or

1-27     secondary school or an institution of higher education that is not

1-28     in a municipality, the commissioners court of the county on request

1-29     shall hold a public hearing at least once each calendar year to

1-30     consider the prima facie speed limit on the road near the school or

1-31     institution of higher education.

1-32           (c)  A municipal governing body or commissioners court on

1-33     request may hold one public hearing for all public and private

1-34     elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher

1-35     education in its jurisdiction.

1-36           (d)  The Texas Transportation Commission, on request, shall

1-37     hold a public hearing at least once each calendar year to consider

1-38     prima facie speed limits on highways in the state highway system

1-39     that are near public or private elementary or secondary schools or

1-40     institutions of higher education.

1-41           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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