Key Votes
H 619 - Prohibits Speed Limit Regulation by Local Authorities - Key Vote
Idaho Key Votes
Stages
- April 5, 2012 Executive Signed
- March 23, 2012 Senate Bill Passed
- March 15, 2012 House Bill Passed
- Feb. 29, 2012 Introduced
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Legislation - Signed (Executive) - April 5, 2012
Title: Prohibits Speed Limit Regulation by Local Authorities
Signed by Governor Butch Otter
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (26-9) - March 23, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Prohibits Speed Limit Regulation by Local Authorities
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits local authorities from setting maximum speed limits on state highways.
Highlights:
- Repeals the authorization of local elected officials in incorporated cities from establishing maximum speed limits on parts of state highways in residential, urban, or business areas (Sec. 5).
- Repeals an exemption that authorized local governments to place and maintain traffic-control devices on state highways which passed through residential, urban, or business areas in incorporated cities when speed limits were lower than the Department of Transportation’s limit (Sec. 3).
- Specifies that local authorities may determine a maximum speed limit which (Sec. 4):
- Decreases the limit within a residential, urban, or business area;
- Increases the limit within a nonresidential area of an urban district, not to exceed 65 miles per hour; or
- Decreases the limit outside an urban area.
- Requires any alteration of maximum speed limits by local authorities to be approved by the department, as a result of a department approved engineering study (Sec. 4).
- Repeals the specific inclusion of elected officials in incorporated cities from determining that a speed limit is greater than necessary, according to engineering or traffic study. (Sec. 4)
- Establishes a speed limit of 35 miles per hour as the standard maximum limit in any residential, business, or urban area, unless otherwise posted (Sec. 6).
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (56-10) - March 15, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Prohibits Speed Limit Regulation by Local Authorities
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits local authorities from setting maximum speed limits on state highways.
Highlights:
- Repeals the authorization of local elected officials in incorporated cities from establishing maximum speed limits on parts of state highways in residential, urban, or business areas (Sec. 5).
- Repeals an exemption that authorized local governments to place and maintain traffic-control devices on state highways which passed through residential, urban, or business areas in incorporated cities when speed limits were lower than the Department of Transportation’s limit (Sec. 3).
- Specifies that local authorities may determine a maximum speed limit which (Sec. 4):
- Decreases the limit within a residential, urban, or business area;
- Increases the limit within a nonresidential area of an urban district, not to exceed 65 miles per hour; or
- Decreases the limit outside an urban area.
- Requires any alteration of maximum speed limits by local authorities to be approved by the department, as a result of a department approved engineering study (Sec. 4).
- Repeals the specific inclusion of elected officials in incorporated cities from determining that a speed limit is greater than necessary, according to engineering or traffic study. (Sec. 4)
- Establishes a speed limit of 35 miles per hour as the standard maximum limit in any residential, business, or urban area, unless otherwise posted (Sec. 6).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Feb. 29, 2012
Title: Prohibits Speed Limit Regulation by Local Authorities
Committee Sponsors
- State Affairs (Sponsor)
Sponsors
- James C. 'Jim' Hammond (ID - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joe A. Palmer (ID - R)
- Leon E. Smith Jr. (ID - R) (Out Of Office)
