LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
May 11, 2011

TO:
Honorable Tommy Williams, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security
 
FROM:
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of local governments to set speed limits on certain roadways.), As Engrossed

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would amend the Transportation Code to authorize a commissioners court to set and enforce a speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on a road in the county at the request of the property owners that are adjacent to a privately maintained road in a subdivision.
 
The bill also would lower the speed limit to not less than 20 miles per hour that the governing body of a municipality would be authorized to declare on a one-lane undivided highway if the governing body determined the prima facie speed limit was unreasonable or unsafe.

Local Government Impact

No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.


Source Agencies:
601 Department of Transportation
LBB Staff:
JOB, KJG, TP