Bill Text: MS HB446 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Highway speed limits; require certain shall be 70 mph and cannot be reduced.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee [HB446 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2020-HB446-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Transportation
By: Representative Currie
House Bill 446
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-501, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO SET THE SPEED LIMIT ON THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM AND CERTAIN CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAYS TO SEVENTY MILES PER HOUR; TO PROHIBIT THE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION AND ANY GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY FROM REDUCING SUCH SPEED LIMITS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 63-3-501, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
63-3-501. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall operate a vehicle on the highways of the state at a speed greater than sixty-five (65) miles per hour.
The Mississippi
Transportation Commission * * *may, in its discretion, by order duly entered on its minutes, shall
increase the speed restrictions on any portion of the Interstate Highway System * * *
to * * *
seventy (70) miles per hour. The commission * * * shall likewise increase the speed
limit to seventy (70) miles per hour on controlled access highways with four
(4) or more lanes. The speed limit on the Interstate Highway System and
controlled access highways with four (4) or more lanes may not be reduced to
less than seventy (70) miles per hour by the commission or any governmental
entity.
A governmental entity that operates and maintains a toll road as authorized under Section 65-43-1, or that contracts with some person or business to operate and maintain a toll road as authorized under Section 65-43-3, may establish the maximum speed for motor vehicles operated on any such toll road; however, the maximum speed so established may not exceed eighty (80) miles per hour.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.
