Bill Text: TX HB442 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the prima facie speed limit in residence districts.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB442 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB442-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Israel, Oliverson, Lopez, Morales Shaw, | H.B. No. 442 | ||
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Substitute the following for H.B. No. 442: | |||
By: Ortega | C.S.H.B. No. 442 |
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relating to the prima facie speed limit in residence districts. | ||
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)[ |
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(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 | ||
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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, 2021. |