By: Brown S.B. No. 287 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 to 1-12 an oath of office that the political subdivision prescribes and 1-13 must complete a training program developed by the political 1-14 subdivision. The person is not a peace officer, has no authority 1-15 other than the authority applicable to a citizen to enforce a law 1-16 other than this Act, and may not carry a weapon while performing 1-17 duties under this subsection. The person is not entitled to 1-18 compensation for performing duties under this subsection or to 1-19 indemnification from the political subdivision or the state for 1-20 injury or property damage the person sustains or liability the 1-21 person incurs in performing duties under this subsection. The 1-22 political subdivision and the state are not liable for any damages 1-23 arising from an act or omission of the person in performing duties 1-24 under this subsection. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.