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                                                                  H.B. No. 87 




AN ACT

relating to the authority of a municipality to alter speed limits in 
an urban district within the municipality.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 545.356, Transportation Code, is amended 
by adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) and amending Subsection (c) 
to read as follows:
	(b-1)  Except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the governing 
body of a municipality, for a highway or a part of a highway in an 
urban district in the municipality that is not an officially 
designated or marked highway or road of the state highway system, is 
35 feet or less in width, and along which vehicular parking is not 
prohibited on one or both sides of the highway, may declare a lower 
speed limit of not less than 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) does not apply to a highway or part 
of a highway that has four or more lanes used for vehicular travel.
	(c)  A prima facie speed limit that is altered by the 
governing body of a municipality under Subsection (b) or (b-1) is 
effective when the governing body erects signs giving notice of the 
new limit and at all times or at other times as determined.
	SECTION 2.  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, 2005.




______________________________              ______________________________
 
   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 87 was passed by the House on March 
31, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not 
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. 
No. 87 on May 13, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 
present, not voting.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 87 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 9, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



APPROVED: __________________                                                
 
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              Governor