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Senate committee advances bill to raise maximum speed limit to 75 mph after safety debate
Summary
After testimony from the Arkansas Trucking Association, Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas Department of Transportation citing crash and fatality data, the Senate Transportation committee passed a bill to raise the maximum speed limit to 75 mph as amended.
The Senate Transportation, Technology and Legislative Affairs Committee voted to advance a bill that would allow a maximum speed limit of 75 miles per hour after extended testimony from industry and public-safety witnesses who urged caution.
Sponsor (unnamed in the transcript) told the committee the bill would "simply raise the speed limit to 75 miles an hour" and moved it forward after debate. The committee heard opposition testimony from David O'Neil of the Arkansas Trucking Association and Major Forrest Marks of the Arkansas State Police, and an engineering and safety review was presented by Scott Bennett, director of the Arkansas Department of…
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