By Davila H.B. No. 2668 74R7935 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to parking privileges for a disabled person. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 6(b), Chapter 338, Acts of the 64th 1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975 (Article 6675a-5e.1, Vernon's 1-6 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (b) The owner of a vehicle on which the special license 1-8 plates are displayed or in which a removable windshield 1-9 identification card is placed on the rearview mirror of the front 1-10 windshield is exempt from the payment of fees or penalties imposed 1-11 by a governmental authority for parking at a meter, in a parking 1-12 garage or lot, or in a space with a limitation on the length of 1-13 time for parking, unless the vehicle was not parked at the time by 1-14 or for the transportation of a disabled person. This exemption 1-15 does not apply to fees or penalties imposed by a branch of the 1-16 United States government. This section does not permit parking a 1-17 vehicle at a place or time that parking is prohibited. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.