By: Madla S.B. No. 1521
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to speed limits within 500 feet of a school.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 545.353 (d), Transportation Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 (d) The commission may not:
1-6 (1) modify the rules established by Section
1-7 545.351(b);
1-8 (2) establish a speed limit of more than 70 miles per
1-9 hour; or
1-10 (3) increase the speed limit for a vehicle described
1-11 by Section 545.352(b)(5).
1-12 (4) establish a speed limit of more than 20 miles per
1-13 hour within 500 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary
1-14 school.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.