82R9908 MTB-D
 
  By: Garza H.B. No. 2596
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority to lower certain speed limits by local
  governments.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 542, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 542.0075 to read as follows:
         Sec. 542.0075. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS: LOWERING OF SPEED LIMITS
  IN PRIVATE SUBDIVISION. On the request of all of the property owners
  adjacent to a privately maintained road located in a subdivision, a
  commissioners court of a county in which the road is located may set
  and enforce a speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on the
  road in the same manner as provided by Section 542.007.
         SECTION 2.  Sections 545.356(b-1) and (b-2), Transportation
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (b-1)  The governing body of a municipality, for a highway or
  a part of a highway in the municipality that is not an officially
  designated or marked highway or road of the state highway system,
  may declare a lower speed limit of not less than 20 [25] miles per
  hour, if the governing body determines that the prima facie speed
  limit on the highway is unreasonable or unsafe.
         (b-2)  Subsection (b-1) applies only to a one-lane or 
  two-lane, undivided highway or part of a highway.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2011.