SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 27
(By Senator Schoonover)

Requesting the governor to authorize the West Virginia

commissioner of highways to increase the maximum speed limit on those portions of the state's corridors, limited access highways and interstate highways which are suited for higher speed limits to seventy miles per hour on interstate highways and to sixty-five miles per hour on the state's corridors and controlled-access highways, effective July 1, 1996.

Whereas, The state's corridors and limited access highways, together with its interstate highways, offer improved access to many areas of this state; and
Whereas, Economic development and improved business competitiveness requires that the state establish rapid, safe and efficient means of transporting people, goods and products; and
Whereas, The federal government has determined that states may increase the speed limits on corridors, limited access highways and interstate highways if agreed to by the Legislature and implemented by the governor; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the governor is hereby requested to authorize the commissioner of highways to increase the maximum speed limit on those portions of the state's corridors and limited access highways which are suited for higher speed limits by increasing the speed limit on interstate highways within this state to seventy miles per hour on the interstate highways within this state and by increasing the speed limit on the state's corridors and controlled-access highways within this state to sixty-five miles per hour, effective July 1, 1996; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby requested to forward a copy of this resolution to the governor and the commissioner of highways.