HBA-MPA H.B. 434 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 434
By: Turner, Bob
Transportation
2/5/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Current law allows speed limits on state roads to be extended to a private
subdivision only if the subdivision has at least 400 residents.  If two
subdivisions are adjacent to a state road the amount of traffic generated
could justify extending the speed restrictions into the subdivisions.
Under current law this is not possible.  H.B. 434 allows speed restrictions
to be extended to private subdivisions adjacent to one another if the
subdivisions together have at least 400 residents. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 542.006(a), Transportation Code, to authorize
owners of a majority of the parcels of real property abutting a private
road to petition the Texas Transportation Commission to extend speed
restrictions on a road in a subdivision if the subdivision and adjacent
subdivisions have a total of at least 400 residents, rather than if the
subdivision alone has a total of at least 400 residents.  Makes conforming
changes.  

SECTION 2. Emergency clause.
           Effective date:  upon passage.