Bill Text: TX HB3848 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study of certain roads to determine the optimal safe speed based on road conditions, types of traffic and accident history.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB3848 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3848-Introduced.html
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 3848 |
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Relating to a study of certain roads to determine the optimal safe | ||
speed based on road conditions, types of traffic and accident | ||
history. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) The Texas Department of Transportation in | ||
conjunction with the Texas Department of Public Safety shall | ||
conduct a study and issue a report regarding the degradation of | ||
roads due to an increase in traffic of oversize and overweight | ||
vehicles. | ||
(b) Participants in the joint study will designate the | ||
optimal speed limit to ensure public safety based on the study. | ||
(c) This study applies to counties with a population of less | ||
than 7,500 adjacent to both a county with a population of 800 or | ||
less and to a county with a population of 10,100 or less. | ||
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, 2013. |