LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION May 19, 2011 TO: Honorable Tommy Williams, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to lower speed limits on certain highways.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. The bill would amend the Transportation Code to authorize the governing body of a municipality to declare a lower speed limit of not less than 25 miles per hour, or not less than 10 miles in a municipality with a population of 2,000 or less with a one-lane highway used for two-way access, for a highway or a part of a highway in the municipality that is not an officially designed or marked highway or road of the state highway system if the governing body determined the prima facie speed limit was unreasonable or unsafe. The governing body of a municipality that lowers a speed limit would be required to publish certain information on its Internet website and submit a report to the Texas Department of Transportation not later than February 1 of each year. Local Government Impact No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source Agencies:601 Department of Transportation LBB Staff: JOB, KJG, TP
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
May 19, 2011
TO: Honorable Tommy Williams, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to lower speed limits on certain highways.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
TO: Honorable Tommy Williams, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security
FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to lower speed limits on certain highways.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
Honorable Tommy Williams, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security
Honorable Tommy Williams, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to lower speed limits on certain highways.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to lower speed limits on certain highways.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend the Transportation Code to authorize the governing body of a municipality to declare a lower speed limit of not less than 25 miles per hour, or not less than 10 miles in a municipality with a population of 2,000 or less with a one-lane highway used for two-way access, for a highway or a part of a highway in the municipality that is not an officially designed or marked highway or road of the state highway system if the governing body determined the prima facie speed limit was unreasonable or unsafe. The governing body of a municipality that lowers a speed limit would be required to publish certain information on its Internet website and submit a report to the Texas Department of Transportation not later than February 1 of each year.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies: 601 Department of Transportation
601 Department of Transportation
LBB Staff: JOB, KJG, TP
JOB, KJG, TP