By:  Reyna                                                        H.B. No. 87 



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the authority of a municipality to alter speed limits in 
an urban district within the municipality.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 545.356, Transportation Code, is amended 
by adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (c) to read as 
follows:
	(b-1)  The governing body of a municipality, for a highway or 
a part of a highway in an urban district in the municipality that is 
not an officially designated or marked highway or road of the state 
highway system, is 35 feet or less in width, and along which 
vehicular parking is not prohibited on one or both sides of the 
highway, may declare a lower speed limit of not less than 25 miles 
per hour, if the governing body determines that the prima facie 
speed limit on the highway is unreasonable or unsafe.
	(c)  A prima facie speed limit that is altered by the 
governing body of a municipality under Subsection (b) or (b-1) is 
effective when the governing body erects signs giving notice of the 
new limit and at all times or at other times as determined.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.