By: Garcia S.B. No. 2103
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 28, 2017, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
May 3, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 1; May 3, 2017, sent
to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2103 By: Garcia
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of certain municipalities to alter prima
facie speed limits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 545.356(b-1) and (b-2), 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 street [highway] or a part of a street
[highway] in the municipality that is not an officially designated
or marked street [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 street [highway] is unreasonable or unsafe.
(b-2) Subsection (b-1) applies only to a two-lane,
undivided street [highway] or part of a street [highway].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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