By Nixon S.B. No. 349
76R4016 WP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to allowing certain trailers to travel at the posted speed
1-3 limit.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 545.352(b), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) Unless a special hazard exists that requires a slower
1-8 speed for compliance with Section 545.351(b), the following speeds
1-9 are lawful:
1-10 (1) 30 miles per hour in an urban district on a street
1-11 other than an alley and 15 miles per hour in an alley;
1-12 (2) 70 miles per hour in daytime and 65 miles per hour
1-13 in nighttime on a highway numbered by this state or the United
1-14 States outside an urban district, including a farm-to-market or
1-15 ranch-to-market road, if the vehicle is a:
1-16 (A) passenger car;[,]
1-17 (B) motorcycle; or
1-18 (C) [,] passenger car or light truck towing a:
1-19 (i) trailer bearing a vessel, as defined
1-20 by Section 31.003, Parks and Wildlife Code, that is less than 26
1-21 feet in length;
1-22 (ii) [, or passenger car or light truck
1-23 towing a] trailer or semitrailer designed and used primarily to
1-24 transport livestock; or
2-1 (iii) trailer, semitrailer, or towable
2-2 recreational vehicle that is less than 20 feet in length [, on a
2-3 highway numbered by this state or the United States outside an
2-4 urban district, including a farm-to-market or ranch-to-market
2-5 road];
2-6 (3) 60 miles per hour in daytime and 55 miles per hour
2-7 in nighttime if the vehicle is a passenger car or motorcycle on a
2-8 highway that is outside an urban district and not a highway
2-9 numbered by this state or the United States;
2-10 (4) 60 miles per hour outside an urban district if a
2-11 speed limit for the vehicle is not otherwise specified by this
2-12 section; or
2-13 (5) outside an urban district:
2-14 (A) 50 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school
2-15 bus on a highway other than an interstate highway;
2-16 (B) 55 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school
2-17 bus on an interstate highway; or
2-18 (C) 60 miles per hour in daytime and 55 miles
2-19 per hour in nighttime if the vehicle is a truck, other than a light
2-20 truck, or if the vehicle is a truck tractor, trailer, or
2-21 semitrailer, or a vehicle towing a trailer, semitrailer, another
2-22 motor vehicle or towable recreational vehicle not described in
2-23 Subdivision (2).
2-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.