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 in
1-11 the installation of the meters.
1-12 (b) The Department of Public Safety is responsible for the
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. The board may
1-16 reimburse the department for the department's expenses in operating
1-17 and maintaining the parking meters.
1-18 (c) The board and department may not install, operate, or
1-19 maintain parking meters that accept only quarters.
1-20 (d) The revenue collected from meters installed under this
1-21 section shall be deposited in the Capitol fund.
1-22 (e) For purposes of this section, the Capitol Complex
1-23 includes the William P. Clements State Office Building.
2-1 SECTION 2. Chapter 443, Government Code, is amended by
2-2 adding Section 443.0151 to read as follows:
2-3 Sec. 443.0151. VISITOR PARKING FACILITIES. (a) The board
2-4 shall operate a garage or similar parking facility for the benefit
2-5 of visitors to the Capitol Complex.
2-6 (b) The board may set and collect a fee for parking.
2-7 Revenue from the parking facility shall be credited to the Capitol
2-8 fund. If revenue bonds are issued for the project, the board shall
2-9 transfer to the Texas Public Finance Authority the amount necessary
2-10 for the debt service on not more than one-half of the total amount
2-11 of bonds issued.
2-12 (c) The Department of Public Safety shall enforce the rules
2-13 of the board governing parking in the facility in the same manner
2-14 in which the department enforces the department's rules under
2-15 Subchapter E, Chapter 411, including the issuance of administrative
2-16 citations for violations of the board's rules. Except as provided
2-17 by board rule, the parking rules of the department adopted under
2-18 that subchapter do not apply to parking in the facility.
2-19 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 411.061, Government Code,
2-20 is amended to read as follows:
2-21 (a) In this subchapter, "Capitol Complex" means the
2-22 following property that is[:]
2-23 [(1)] located in Austin, Texas, to the extent the
2-24 property is owned by or under the control of the state:
2-25 (1) [in] the area bounded on the north by the inside
3-1 curb of Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard, on the east by the
3-2 outside curb of Trinity Street, on the south by the outside curb of
3-3 10th Street, and on the west by the outside curb of Lavaca Street;
3-4 (2) [, and including] the William P. Clements State
3-5 Office Building located at 300 West 15th Street; and
3-6 (3) [. The term shall also apply to] other locations
3-7 under the jurisdiction of the capitol police district as may be
3-8 approved by the director[; and]
3-9 [(2) owned by or under the control of the state].
3-10 SECTION 4. Section 411.062, Government Code, is amended by
3-11 adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
3-12 (f) The department and the City of Austin shall execute an
3-13 interlocal cooperation agreement that defines the respective
3-14 responsibilities of the department and the city for traffic and
3-15 parking enforcement and general security in the Capitol Complex,
3-16 including private property within the boundaries of the complex.
3-17 (g) The commission may authorize the director to impose
3-18 within the Capitol Complex measures the director determines to be
3-19 necessary to protect the safety and security of persons and
3-20 property within the complex.
3-21 SECTION 5. Section 411.063, Government Code, is amended by
3-22 amending Subsections (b) and (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read
3-23 as follows:
3-24 (b) Rules adopted under this section may:
3-25 (1) regulate the type, flow, and direction of
4-1 vehicular traffic;
4-2 (2) designate, mark, and assign areas and spaces for
4-3 parking for elected state officials, chief executives and employees
4-4 of state agencies located in the Capitol Complex, state-owned
4-5 vehicles, business vehicles, and visitors to the Capitol Complex;
4-6 (3) establish a system of registration for vehicle
4-7 identification;
4-8 (4) prohibit or restrict the use of areas and spaces
4-9 for parking;
4-10 (5) establish a reasonable fee for parking in a
4-11 parking space on a parking lot or in a parking garage that is
4-12 located in the Capitol Complex, other than a space in the capitol
4-13 driveway or capitol extension garage; and
4-14 (6) provide for the towing and storing, at the expense
4-15 of the owner, of a vehicle parked in violation of a rule.
4-16 (d) Except as provided by Section 443.015, the [The]
4-17 department shall remit to the comptroller for deposit to the credit
4-18 of State Parking Fund No. 125 any fee collected for the parking of
4-19 a vehicle in the Capitol Complex. Money in the fund may be
4-20 appropriated only to the department for the operation, maintenance,
4-21 and improvement of state parking facilities on, and for security
4-22 in, the Capitol Complex.
4-23 (e) To the extent that the City of Austin on January 1,
4-24 1997, operated and maintained parking meters along either side of
4-25 the streets forming the perimeter of the Capitol Complex, the city
5-1 is entitled to continue to operate, maintain, and receive the
5-2 revenue from those meters, except that the city may not operate or
5-3 maintain along those streets meters that accept only quarters.
5-4 SECTION 6. Subchapter E, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
5-5 amended by adding Section 411.0645 to read as follows:
5-6 Sec. 411.0645. TRANSPORTATION PLANNING COMMITTEE. (a) The
5-7 department, the City of Austin, the Capital Metropolitan
5-8 Transportation Authority, the General Services Commission, the
5-9 State Preservation Board, and The University of Texas at Austin
5-10 shall each designate a representative to a committee established
5-11 for the purpose of coordinating transportation in and adjacent to
5-12 the Capitol Complex. The representative of the department shall
5-13 convene the initial meeting of the committee, and the committee
5-14 shall elect officers and meet as decided by the committee.
5-15 (b) The committee may develop and recommend to the agencies
5-16 represented agreements and memoranda of understanding relating to
5-17 transportation in and adjacent to the Capitol Complex, including
5-18 agreements or understandings relating to parking, vehicle traffic,
5-19 and the location of light rail or other mass transit terminals and
5-20 facilities in that area.
5-21 SECTION 7. Subsection (a), Section 411.065, Government Code,
5-22 is amended to read as follows:
5-23 (a) A person commits an offense if the person[:]
5-24 [(1) drives or operates a motor vehicle at a speed
5-25 greater than 15 miles per hour in the Capitol Complex; or]
6-1 [(2)] violates a rule of the department adopted under
6-2 Section 411.062 or 411.063.
6-3 SECTION 8. The Texas Public Finance Authority Act (Article
6-4 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section
6-5 24B to read as follows:
6-6 Sec. 24B. CAPITOL COMPLEX PARKING FACILITIES. (a) The
6-7 construction of parking facilities for state officers and employees
6-8 and for visitors to the Capitol Complex, at an estimated cost of
6-9 $29.5 million, is approved for financing in accordance with
6-10 Section 9 of this Act, and bonds may be issued to finance the
6-11 construction in accordance with Section 10 of this Act.
6-12 (b) The parking facility for state officers and employees
6-13 authorized under Subsection (a) of this section is projected to be
6-14 built on current state parking Lot 20. The parking facility for
6-15 visitors to the Capitol Complex is projected to be built on current
6-16 state parking Lot 17 and shall be under the control of the State
6-17 Preservation Board.
6-18 SECTION 9. Section 27, Texas Public Finance Authority Act
6-19 (Article 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding
6-20 Subsection (d) to read as follows:
6-21 (d) Within the principal amount of the bond issue authorized
6-22 under this Act for purposes of the project approved by this
6-23 section, additional parking facilities, projected to be constructed
6-24 on parking Lot 2E, are approved for financing.
6-25 SECTION 10. The importance of this legislation and the
S.B. No. 1301
7-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
7-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
7-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
7-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
7-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
7-6 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1301 passed the Senate on
April 3, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 12, 1997, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1301 passed the House, with
amendments, on May 8, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 137,
Nays 4, one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor