SB 127 – Speed limit on U.S. 20

Introduced Version, Senate Bill 0127:

Speed limit on section of U.S. 20. Increases the speed limit on a section of U.S. 20 located in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties.

I guess I don’t object to the idea of a 65 mph speed limit on U.S. 20 from the intersection of U.S. 20 and County Road 17 in Elkhart County to the intersection of U.S. 20 and State Road 331 in St. Joseph County. However, the structure of this legislation certainly reeks of special legislation which the Indiana Constitution prohibits and the Supreme Court has been looking down upon recently. The section of the Indiana Code provides: