| TO: | Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Transportation |
| FROM: | John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of local governments to enact and enforce certain traffic regulations.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would amend the Transportation Code to authorize the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to enter into an agreement with a local government regarding the use of a transponder issued by the department and the corresponding electronic toll collection customer account to pay for parking services offered by the local government at a facility established by the local government under Chapter 22.
The bill would prohibit the governing body of a home-rule municipality, by ordinance, from requiring a permit to park on a public street or alley of the municipality if the street or alley is located within 1,000 feet of the Capitol view corridor and has a posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour or less.
The bill would 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.
According to TxDOT, any costs or duties could be absorbed within existing resources.
| Source Agencies: | 601 Department of Transportation
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, KJG, TP
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