81R38705 JAM-D
By: Wentworth S.R. No. 1082
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 81st
Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on House
Bill 2682 (the authority of municipalities to alter speed limits)
to consider and take action on the following matter:
Senate Rule 12.03(1), is suspended to permit the committee to
change text not in disagreement in SECTION 1 of the bill, in
Sections 545.356(b-1) and (b-2), Transportation Code, to read as
follows:
(b-1) The [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.
(b-2) Subsection (b-1) applies only [does not apply] to a
two-lane, undivided highway or part of a highway [that has four or
more lanes used for vehicular travel].
Explanation: This change is necessary to clarify the type of
highway to which a municipality's authority to alter the speed
limit applies.