81R5315 JAM-F
By: Alvarado H.B. No. 2682
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of municipalities to alter speed limits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 545.356(b-1), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the governing
body of a municipality, for a highway or a part of a highway in an
urban district in the municipality that is not an officially
designated or marked highway or road of the state highway system,
[is 35 feet or less in width, and along which vehicular parking is
not prohibited on one or both sides of the highway,] 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.
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, 2009.