Bill Text: TX HB1287 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the prima facie speed limit on certain streets and highways.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1287 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1287-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the prima facie speed limit on certain streets and highways.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1287 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1287-Introduced.html
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By: Israel | H.B. No. 1287 |
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relating to the prima facie speed limit on certain streets and | ||
highways. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 545.352(b), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Unless a special hazard exists that requires a slower | ||
speed for compliance with Section 545.351(b), the following speeds | ||
are lawful: | ||
(1) 25 [ |
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street other than an alley and 15 miles per hour in an alley; | ||
(2) except as provided by Subdivision (4), 70 miles | ||
per hour on a highway numbered by this state or the United States | ||
outside an urban district, including a farm-to-market or | ||
ranch-to-market road; | ||
(3) except as provided by Subdivision (4), 60 miles | ||
per hour on a highway that is outside an urban district and not a | ||
highway numbered by this state or the United States; | ||
(4) outside an urban district: | ||
(A) 60 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school | ||
bus that has passed a commercial motor vehicle inspection under | ||
Section 548.201 and is on a highway numbered by the United States or | ||
this state, including a farm-to-market road; or | ||
(B) 50 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school | ||
bus that: | ||
(i) has not passed a commercial motor | ||
vehicle inspection under Section 548.201; or | ||
(ii) is traveling on a highway not numbered | ||
by the United States or this state; | ||
(5) on a beach, 15 miles per hour; or | ||
(6) on a county road adjacent to a public beach, 15 | ||
miles per hour, if declared by the commissioners court of the | ||
county. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 545.356(b-1) and (d), 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 highway or a part of a highway in the | ||
municipality that is not an officially designated or marked highway | ||
or road of the state highway system, may declare a lower speed limit | ||
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determines that the prima facie speed limit on the highway is | ||
unreasonable or unsafe. | ||
(d) The governing body of a municipality that declares a | ||
lower speed limit on a highway or part of a highway under Subsection | ||
(b-1) or (b-3), not later than February 1 of each year, shall | ||
publish on its Internet website and submit to the department a | ||
report that compares for each of the two previous calendar years: | ||
(1) the number of traffic citations issued by peace | ||
officers of the municipality and the alleged speed of the vehicles, | ||
for speed limit violations on the highway or part of the highway; | ||
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resulted in injury or death and were attributable to speed limit | ||
violations on the highway or part of the highway. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
545.352(b), Transportation Code, applies only to an offense for a | ||
violation of that section committed on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. An offense for a violation of that section committed | ||
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, | ||
an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if | ||
any element of the offense occurred before that date. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |