By Naishtat H.B. No. 3126 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to parking fees and penalties for certain vehicles 1-3 operated by or for permanently disabled persons. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 6, Chapter 338, Acts of the 64th 1-6 Legislature, 1975 (Article 6675a-5e.1, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-7 Statutes) is amended to read as follows: 1-8 Section 6: (b) The owner of a vehicle on which the special 1-9 license plates are displayed or in which a removable windshield 1-10 identification card is placed on the rearview mirror of the front 1-11 windshield is exempt from the payment of fees or penalties imposed 1-12 by a governmental authority for parking, including at a parking 1-13 meter, or in a space with a limitation on the length of time for 1-14 parking, unless the vehicle was not parked at the time by or for 1-15 the transportation of a disabled person. This exemption does not 1-16 apply to fees or penalties imposed by a branch of the United States 1-17 government. This section does not permit parking a vehicle at a 1-18 place or time that parking is prohibited. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.