By: Madla S.B. No. 1521 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. 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.