88R3004 JAM-F
	By: Hernandez	H.B. No. 2224

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the authority of a municipality to alter speed limits.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 545.356(b-1), (c), 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
	of not less than 25 miles per hour, if the governing body determines
	that the prima facie speed limit on the highway is unreasonable or
	unsafe. A municipality is not required to perform an engineering or
	traffic investigation to declare a lower speed limit under this
	subsection if the street is located in a residence district.
	(c)  A prima facie speed limit that is altered by the
	governing body of a municipality under Subsection (b)[, (b-1),] or
	(b-3) is effective when the governing body erects signs giving
	notice of the new limit and at all times or at other times as
	determined.
	(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;
	(2)  the number of warning citations issued by peace
	officers of the municipality on the highway or part of the highway;
	and
	(3)  the number of vehicular accidents that resulted in
	injury or death and were attributable to speed limit violations on
	the highway or part of the highway.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.