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HB1055 • 2026

Traffic Safety

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55, Chapter 8, relative to speed limits.

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Sponsor
McKenzie
Last action
2025-02-06
Official status
Withdrawn.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill was withdrawn, so it is no longer active.

Speed Limit Changes for Highways

This bill changes speed limits on certain Tennessee highways by raising them from 70 mph to 75 mph and setting a new minimum of 60 mph in the left lane.

What This Bill Does

  • Raises the maximum speed limit from 70 mph to 75 mph on interstate and defense highways, as well as four-lane controlled-access state highways.
  • Increases the minimum speed limit in the left lane of these highways from 55 mph to 60 mph.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Drivers on interstate and defense highways, as well as four-lane controlled-access state highways.

Terms To Know

Interstate Highway
A major highway system that connects states across the country.
Controlled-Access Highway
A road where drivers can enter and exit only at specific points, like ramps or interchanges.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill was withdrawn on February 6, 2025, so it is not currently active.
  • It does not specify how the changes will be enforced or what penalties might apply for breaking the new speed limits.

Bill History

  1. Date Tennessee General Assembly

  2. 2025-02-06 Tennessee General Assembly

    Withdrawn.

  3. 2025-02-06 Tennessee General Assembly

    Intro., P1C.

  4. 2025-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

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HOUSE BILL 1055
By McKenzie

HB1055
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55,
Chapter 8, relative to speed limits.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-8-152(c), is amended by deleting
the language "seventy miles per hour (70 mph)" and substituting instead the language "seventy-
five miles per hour (75 mph)" and by deleting the language "fifty-five miles per hour (55 mph)"
and substituting instead the language "sixty miles per hour (60 mph)".
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-8-152(f)(2), is amended by
deleting the language "in excess of fifty-five miles per hour (55 mph) but less than seventy-five
miles per hour (75 mph)" and substituting instead the language "in excess of sixty miles per
hour (60 mph) but less than eighty miles per hour (80 mph)" and by deleting the language "This
subsection (f) shall not apply to trucks as defined in subsection (b) when traveling in excess of
sixty-five miles per hour (65 mph) on all highways of the interstate and defense highway system
and four-laned controlled-access highways," and substituting instead the language "This
subsection (f) does not apply to trucks as defined in subsection (b) when traveling in excess of
seventy miles per hour (70 mph) on all highways of the interstate and defense highway system
and four-laned controlled-access highways,".
SECTION 3. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.