Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas House Bill HB1287 Compare Versions

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1		-	86R19230 MP-F
2		-	By: Israel, Phelan, Meyer, Murphy, Martinez, H.B. No. 1287
3		-	et al.
4		-	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1287:
5		-	By: Ortega C.S.H.B. No. 1287
	1	+	86R4590 MP-F
	2	+	By: Israel H.B. No. 1287
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8	5		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	6		AN ACT
10	7		relating to the prima facie speed limit on certain streets and
11	8		highways.
12	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	10		SECTION 1. Section 545.352(b), Transportation Code, is
14	11		amended to read as follows:
15	12		(b) Unless a special hazard exists that requires a slower
16	13		speed for compliance with Section 545.351(b), the following speeds
17	14		are lawful:
18		-	(1) [30 miles per hour] in an urban district:
19		-	(A) on a street other than an alley:
20		-	(i) 30 miles per hour; or
21		-	(ii) 25 miles per hour if the street is
22		-	located in a residence district and is not officially designated or
23		-	marked as part of the state highway system; and
24		-	(B) 15 miles per hour in an alley;
	15	+	(1) 25 [30] miles per hour in an urban district on a
	16	+	street other than an alley and 15 miles per hour in an alley;
25	17		(2) except as provided by Subdivision (4), 70 miles
26	18		per hour on a highway numbered by this state or the United States
27	19		outside an urban district, including a farm-to-market or
28	20		ranch-to-market road;
29	21		(3) except as provided by Subdivision (4), 60 miles
30	22		per hour on a highway that is outside an urban district and not a
31	23		highway numbered by this state or the United States;
32	24		(4) outside an urban district:
33	25		(A) 60 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school
34	26		bus that has passed a commercial motor vehicle inspection under
35	27		Section 548.201 and is on a highway numbered by the United States or
36	28		this state, including a farm-to-market road; or
37	29		(B) 50 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school
38	30		bus that:
39	31		(i) has not passed a commercial motor
40	32		vehicle inspection under Section 548.201; or
41	33		(ii) is traveling on a highway not numbered
42	34		by the United States or this state;
43	35		(5) on a beach, 15 miles per hour; or
44	36		(6) on a county road adjacent to a public beach, 15
45	37		miles per hour, if declared by the commissioners court of the
46	38		county.
47		-	SECTION 2. Section 545.356(d), Transportation Code, is
48		-	amended to read as follows:
	39	+	SECTION 2. Sections 545.356(b-1) and (d), Transportation
	40	+	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	41	+	(b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-3), the governing
	42	+	body of a municipality, for a highway or a part of a highway in the
	43	+	municipality that is not an officially designated or marked highway
	44	+	or road of the state highway system, may declare a lower speed limit
	45	+	of not less than 20 [25] miles per hour, if the governing body
	46	+	determines that the prima facie speed limit on the highway is
	47	+	unreasonable or unsafe.
49	48		(d) The governing body of a municipality that declares a
50	49		lower speed limit on a highway or part of a highway under Subsection
51	50		(b-1) or (b-3), not later than February 1 of each year, shall
52	51		publish on its Internet website and submit to the department a
53	52		report that compares for each of the two previous calendar years:
54	53		(1) the number of traffic citations issued by peace
55	54		officers of the municipality and the alleged speed of the vehicles,
56	55		for speed limit violations on the highway or part of the highway;
57	56		[(2) the number of warning citations issued by peace
58	57		officers of the municipality on the highway or part of the highway;]
59	58		and
60	59		(2) [(3)] the number of vehicular accidents that
61	60		resulted in injury or death and were attributable to speed limit
62	61		violations on the highway or part of the highway.
63	62		SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section
64	63		545.352(b), Transportation Code, applies only to an offense for a
65	64		violation of that section committed on or after the effective date
66	65		of this Act. An offense for a violation of that section committed
67	66		before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
68	67		effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is
69	68		continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section,
70	69		an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if
71	70		any element of the offense occurred before that date.
72	71		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.