Bill Text: TX HB339 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the placement of speed limit signs at the end of construction or maintenance work zones.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB339 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB339-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the placement of speed limit signs at the end of construction or maintenance work zones.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB339 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB339-Comm_Sub.html
By: Murr, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Perry) | H.B. No. 339 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 2019; | ||
March 27, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 1, 2019, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 1, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the placement of speed limit signs at the end of | ||
construction or maintenance work zones. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 545, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 545.364 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 545.364. SPEED LIMIT SIGNS AFTER CONSTRUCTION OR | ||
MAINTENANCE WORK ZONE. (a) In this section, "construction or | ||
maintenance work zone" has the meaning assigned by Section 472.022. | ||
(b) An entity that sets a lower speed limit on a road or | ||
highway in the state highway system for a construction or | ||
maintenance work zone shall place or require to be placed a sign at | ||
the end of the zone that indicates the speed limit after the zone | ||
ends. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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