By: Brown S.B. No. 567 73R4675 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to enforcement by a disabled person of a law relating to 1-3 parking by or for disabled persons. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 6A, Chapter 338, Acts of the 64th 1-6 Legislature, 1975 (Article 6675a-5e.1, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-7 Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-8 (e) A political subdivision may appoint a disabled person to 1-9 have the authority to file charges against a person who commits an 1-10 offense under this Act. A person appointed under this subsection 1-11 must be a United States citizen of good moral character who has not 1-12 been convicted of a felony. The person must take and subscribe to 1-13 an oath of office that the political subdivision prescribes and 1-14 must complete a training program developed by the political 1-15 subdivision. The person is not a peace officer, has no authority 1-16 other than the authority applicable to a citizen to enforce a law 1-17 other than this Act, and may not carry a weapon while performing 1-18 duties under this subsection. The person is not entitled to 1-19 compensation for performing duties under this subsection or to 1-20 indemnification from the political subdivision or the state for 1-21 injury or property damage the person sustains or liability the 1-22 person incurs in performing duties under this subsection. The 1-23 political subdivision and the state are not liable for any damages 1-24 arising from an act or omission of the person in performing duties 2-1 under this subsection. 2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.