By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1301

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to parking, vehicle traffic, and security in the Capitol

 1-2     Complex.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 443, Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding Section 443.015 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 443.015.  PARKING METERS.  (a)  The board may expend any

 1-7     available funds for the installation of parking meters in

 1-8     appropriate areas of the Capitol Complex for which parking and

 1-9     traffic control is under the jurisdiction of the Department of

1-10     Public Safety.  The board shall cooperate with the Department of

1-11     Public Safety in the installation of the meters.

1-12           (b)  The Department of Public Safety is responsible for

1-13     operation and maintenance of parking meters installed under this

1-14     section and shall enforce parking violations related to metered

1-15     spaces in accordance with Subchapter E, Chapter 411.

1-16           (c)  Fifty percent of the revenue collected from meters

1-17     installed under this section shall be deposited in the Capitol

1-18     fund, and 50 percent shall be deposited in the State Parking Fund

1-19     No. 125 as provided by Section 411.063(d).

1-20           (d)  For purposes of this section, the Capitol Complex

1-21     includes the William P. Clements State Office Building.

1-22           SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 411.061, Government Code,

1-23     is amended to read as follows:

 2-1           (a)  In this subchapter, "Capitol Complex" means the

 2-2     following property that is[:]

 2-3                 [(1)]  located in Austin, Texas, to the extent the

 2-4     property is owned by or under the control of the state:

 2-5                 (1)  [in] the area bounded, by the inside curbs, on the

 2-6     north by Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard, on the east by Trinity

 2-7     Street, on the south by 10th Street, and on the west by Lavaca

 2-8     Street;

 2-9                 (2)  [, and including] the William P. Clements State

2-10     Office Building located at 300 West 15th Street; and

2-11                 (3)  [.  The term shall also apply to] other locations

2-12     under the jurisdiction of the capitol police district as may be

2-13     approved by the director[; and]

2-14                 [(2)  owned by or under the control of the state].

2-15           SECTION 3.  Section 411.062, Government Code, is amended by

2-16     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

2-17           (f)  The department and the City of Austin shall execute an

2-18     interlocal cooperation agreement that defines the respective

2-19     responsibilities of the department and the city for traffic and

2-20     parking enforcement and general security in the Capitol Complex,

2-21     including private property within the boundaries of the complex.

2-22           SECTION 4.  Subsection (d), Section 411.063, Government Code,

2-23     is amended to read as follows:

2-24           (d)  Except as provided by Section 443.015, the [The]

2-25     department shall remit to the comptroller for deposit to the credit

 3-1     of State Parking Fund No. 125 any fee collected for the parking of

 3-2     a vehicle in the Capitol Complex.  Money in the fund may be

 3-3     appropriated only to the department for the operation, maintenance,

 3-4     and improvement of state parking facilities on, and for security

 3-5     in, the Capitol Complex.

 3-6           SECTION 5.  Notwithstanding Section 443.015, Government Code,

 3-7     as added by this Act, and Subsection (d), Section 411.063,

 3-8     Government Code, as amended by this Act, all revenue collected from

 3-9     parking meters installed under Section 443.015 shall be deposited

3-10     to the credit of the Capitol fund until the amount so deposited

3-11     equals the expenditures of the State Preservation Board in the

3-12     installation of those meters.  After that board is fully reimbursed

3-13     for the cost of installation, the revenue from the meters shall be

3-14     divided and deposited as provided by Subsection (c), Section

3-15     443.015, Government Code, as added by this Act.

3-16           SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the

3-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

3-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

3-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

3-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

3-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

3-22     passage, and it is so enacted.