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By: Garcia |
S.B. No. 2103 |
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(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 28, 2017, read |
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first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; |
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May 3, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 1; May 3, 2017, sent |
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to printer.) |
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2103 |
By: Garcia |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the authority of certain municipalities to alter prima |
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facie speed limits. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Sections 545.356(b-1) and (b-2), Transportation |
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Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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(b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-3), the governing |
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body of a municipality, for a street [highway] or a part of a street |
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[highway] in the municipality that is not an officially designated |
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or marked street [highway] or road of the state highway system, may |
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declare a lower speed limit of not less than 20 [25] miles per hour, |
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if the governing body determines that the prima facie speed limit on |
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the street [highway] is unreasonable or unsafe. |
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(b-2) Subsection (b-1) applies only to a two-lane, |
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undivided street [highway] or part of a street [highway]. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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