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.