Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1023 Compare Versions

Only one version of the bill is available at this time.

Old	New	Differences
1	1	86R4590 MP-F
2	2	By: Rodríguez S.B. No. 1023
3	3
4	4
5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the prima facie speed limit on certain streets and
8	8	highways.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 545.352(b), Transportation Code, is
11	11	amended to read as follows:
12	12	(b) Unless a special hazard exists that requires a slower
13	13	speed for compliance with Section 545.351(b), the following speeds
14	14	are lawful:
15	15	(1) 25 [30] miles per hour in an urban district on a
16	16	street other than an alley and 15 miles per hour in an alley;
17	17	(2) except as provided by Subdivision (4), 70 miles
18	18	per hour on a highway numbered by this state or the United States
19	19	outside an urban district, including a farm-to-market or
20	20	ranch-to-market road;
21	21	(3) except as provided by Subdivision (4), 60 miles
22	22	per hour on a highway that is outside an urban district and not a
23	23	highway numbered by this state or the United States;
24	24	(4) outside an urban district:
25	25	(A) 60 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school
26	26	bus that has passed a commercial motor vehicle inspection under
27	27	Section 548.201 and is on a highway numbered by the United States or
28	28	this state, including a farm-to-market road; or
29	29	(B) 50 miles per hour if the vehicle is a school
30	30	bus that:
31	31	(i) has not passed a commercial motor
32	32	vehicle inspection under Section 548.201; or
33	33	(ii) is traveling on a highway not numbered
34	34	by the United States or this state;
35	35	(5) on a beach, 15 miles per hour; or
36	36	(6) on a county road adjacent to a public beach, 15
37	37	miles per hour, if declared by the commissioners court of the
38	38	county.
39	39	SECTION 2. Sections 545.356(b-1) and (d), Transportation
40	40	Code, are amended to read as follows:
41	41	(b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-3), the governing
42	42	body of a municipality, for a highway or a part of a highway in the
43	43	municipality that is not an officially designated or marked highway
44	44	or road of the state highway system, may declare a lower speed limit
45	45	of not less than 20 [25] miles per hour, if the governing body
46	46	determines that the prima facie speed limit on the highway is
47	47	unreasonable or unsafe.
48	48	(d) The governing body of a municipality that declares a
49	49	lower speed limit on a highway or part of a highway under Subsection
50	50	(b-1) or (b-3), not later than February 1 of each year, shall
51	51	publish on its Internet website and submit to the department a
52	52	report that compares for each of the two previous calendar years:
53	53	(1) the number of traffic citations issued by peace
54	54	officers of the municipality and the alleged speed of the vehicles,
55	55	for speed limit violations on the highway or part of the highway;
56	56	[(2) the number of warning citations issued by peace
57	57	officers of the municipality on the highway or part of the highway;]
58	58	and
59	59	(2) [(3)] the number of vehicular accidents that
60	60	resulted in injury or death and were attributable to speed limit
61	61	violations on the highway or part of the highway.
62	62	SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section
63	63	545.352(b), Transportation Code, applies only to an offense for a
64	64	violation of that section committed on or after the effective date
65	65	of this Act. An offense for a violation of that section committed
66	66	before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
67	67	effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is
68	68	continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section,
69	69	an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if
70	70	any element of the offense occurred before that date.
71	71	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.