82R24839 MTB-D
By: Garza H.B. No. 2596
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2596:
By: Bonnen C.S.H.B. No. 2596
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of local governments to enact and enforce
certain traffic regulations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 228.057, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) The department may enter into an agreement with a local
government regarding the use of a transponder issued by the
department and the corresponding electronic toll collection
customer account to pay for parking services offered by the local
government at a facility established by the local government under
Chapter 22.
SECTION 2. Section 311.001, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or (b), the governing
body of a municipality may not, by ordinance, require a permit to
park on a public street or alley of the municipality if the street
or alley:
(1) is located within 1,000 feet of the corridor
described by Section 3151.002(6), Government Code; and
(2) has a posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour or
less.
SECTION 3. Subchapter A, Chapter 542, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 542.0075 to read as follows:
Sec. 542.0075. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS: LOWERING OF SPEED LIMITS
IN PRIVATE SUBDIVISION. On the request of all of the property owners
adjacent to a privately maintained road located in a subdivision, a
commissioners court of a county in which the road is located may set
and enforce a speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on the
road in the same manner as provided by Section 542.007.
SECTION 4. Sections 545.356(b-1) and (b-2), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b-1) 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 20 [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 to a one-lane or
two-lane, undivided highway or part of a highway.
SECTION 5. 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, 2011.