1-1     By:  Isett, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)           H.B. No. 676
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 10, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 676                By:  Shapleigh
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to prima facie speed limits for vehicles on highways and
1-11     beaches.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 545.352(b), Transportation Code, is
1-14     amended to read as follows:
1-15           (b)  Unless a special hazard exists that requires a slower
1-16     speed for compliance with Section 545.351(b), the following speeds
1-17     are lawful:
1-18                 (1)  30 miles per hour in an urban district on a street
1-19     other than an alley and 15 miles per hour in an alley;
1-20                 (2)  70 miles per hour in daytime and 65 miles per hour
1-21     in nighttime if the vehicle is [a passenger car, motorcycle,
1-22     passenger car or light truck towing a trailer bearing a vessel, as
1-23     defined by Section 31.003, Parks and Wildlife Code, that is less
1-24     than 26 feet in length, or passenger car or light truck towing a
1-25     trailer or semitrailer designed and used primarily to transport
1-26     livestock,] on a highway numbered by this state or the United
1-27     States outside an urban district, including a farm-to-market or
1-28     ranch-to-market road, except as provided by Subdivision (5)(C);
1-29                 (3)  60 miles per hour in daytime and 55 miles per hour
1-30     in nighttime if the vehicle is [a passenger car or motorcycle] on a
1-31     highway that is outside an urban district and not a highway
1-32     numbered by this state or the United States;
1-33                 (4)  60 miles per hour outside an urban district if a
1-34     speed limit for the vehicle is not otherwise specified by this
1-35     section; [or]
1-36                 (5)  outside an urban district:
1-37                       (A)  50 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school
1-38     bus on a highway other than an interstate highway;
1-39                       (B)  55 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school
1-40     bus on an interstate highway; or
1-41                       (C)  60 miles per hour in daytime and 55 miles
1-42     per hour in nighttime if:
1-43                             (i)  the vehicle is a truck, other than a
1-44     light truck, [or if the vehicle is a] truck tractor, trailer, or
1-45     semitrailer, or a vehicle towing a trailer, semitrailer, another
1-46     motor vehicle, or towable recreational vehicle; and
1-47                             (ii)  the vehicle is on a farm-to-market or
1-48     ranch-to-market road; or
1-49                 (6)  on a beach, 15 miles per hour.
1-50           SECTION 2.  Section 545.364, Transportation Code, is
1-51     repealed.
1-52           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-53           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-54     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-55     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-56     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-57     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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