By Turner of Coleman                                   H.B. No. 434
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to extending speed restrictions to private roads in
 1-3     certain subdivisions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 542.006(a), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The owners of a majority of the parcels of real property
 1-8     abutting a private road may petition the Texas Transportation
 1-9     Commission to extend the speed restrictions of this subtitle to the
1-10     portion of the road in a subdivision if:
1-11                 (1)  the road is not in a municipality;
1-12                 (2)  the total number of residents in the subdivision
1-13     and subdivisions adjacent to the subdivision is at least 400; and
1-14                 (3)  a plat for the subdivision and each adjacent
1-15     subdivision included to determine the number of residents under
1-16     Subdivision (2) has  been filed in the deed records of the county[;
1-17     and]
1-18                 [(3)  the subdivision has at least 400 residents].
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.