By:  Brown, Wentworth                                  S.B. No. 567
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to enforcement by a disabled person of a law relating to
    1-2  parking by or for disabled persons.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 6A, Chapter 338, Acts of the 64th
    1-5  Legislature, 1975 (Article 6675a-5e.1, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-6  Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  A political subdivision may appoint a disabled person to
    1-8  have the authority to file charges against a person who commits an
    1-9  offense under this Act.  A person appointed under this subsection
   1-10  must be a United States citizen of good moral character who has not
   1-11  been convicted of a felony.  The person must take and subscribe an
   1-12  oath of office that the political subdivision prescribes and must
   1-13  complete a training program developed by the political subdivision.
   1-14  The person is not a peace officer, has no authority other than the
   1-15  authority applicable to a citizen to enforce a law other than this
   1-16  Act, and may not carry a weapon while performing duties under this
   1-17  subsection.  The person is not entitled to compensation for
   1-18  performing duties under this subsection or to indemnification from
   1-19  the political subdivision or the state for injury or property
   1-20  damage the person sustains or liability the person incurs in
   1-21  performing duties under this subsection.  The political subdivision
   1-22  and the state are not liable for any damages arising from an act or
   1-23  omission of the person in performing duties under this subsection.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.