By: Garcia S.B. No. 2103

(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 28, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 3, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 1; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2103 By: Garcia

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the authority of certain municipalities to alter prima facie speed limits.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Sections 545.356(b-1) and (b-2), Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:

(b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-3), the governing body of a municipality, for a street [highway] or a part of a street [highway] in the municipality that is not an officially designated or marked street [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 street [highway] is unreasonable or unsafe.

(b-2) Subsection (b-1) applies only to a two-lane, undivided street [highway] or part of a street [highway].

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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