75R12262 SRC-D
By Harris S.B. No. 1301
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1301:
By Goolsby C.S.S.B. No. 1301
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to parking, vehicle traffic, and security in the Capitol
1-3 Complex.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 443, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Section 443.015 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 443.015. PARKING METERS. (a) The board may expend any
1-8 available funds for the installation of parking meters in
1-9 appropriate areas of the Capitol Complex for which parking and
1-10 traffic control is under the jurisdiction of the Department of
1-11 Public Safety. The board shall cooperate with the Department of
1-12 Public Safety in the installation of the meters.
1-13 (b) The Department of Public Safety is responsible for
1-14 operation and maintenance of parking meters installed under this
1-15 section, and shall enforce parking violations related to metered
1-16 spaces in accordance with Subchapter E, Chapter 411.
1-17 (c) The board and department may not install, operate, or
1-18 maintain parking meters that accept only quarters.
1-19 (d) Fifty percent of the revenue collected from meters
1-20 installed under this section shall be deposited in the Capitol
1-21 fund, and 50 percent shall be deposited in the State Parking Fund
1-22 No. 125 as provided by Section 411.063(d).
1-23 (e) For purposes of this section, the Capitol Complex
1-24 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 of Public Safety
2-18 adopted under that subchapter do not apply to parking in the
2-19 facility.
2-20 SECTION 3. Section 411.061(a), Government Code, is amended
2-21 to read as follows:
2-22 (a) In this subchapter, "Capitol Complex" means the
2-23 following property that is[:]
2-24 [(1)] located in Austin, Texas, to the extent the
2-25 property is owned by or under the control of the state:
2-26 (1) [in] the area bounded on the north by the inside
2-27 curb of Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard, on the east by the
3-1 outside curb of Trinity Street, on the south by the outside curb of
3-2 10th Street, and on the west by the outside curb of Lavaca Street;
3-3 (2) [, and including] the William P. Clements State
3-4 Office Building located at 300 West 15th Street; and
3-5 (3) [. The term shall also apply to] other locations
3-6 under the jurisdiction of the capitol police district as may be
3-7 approved by the director[; and]
3-8 [(2) owned by or under the control of the state].
3-9 SECTION 4. Section 411.062, Government Code, is amended by
3-10 adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
3-11 (f) The department and the City of Austin shall execute an
3-12 interlocal cooperation agreement that defines the respective
3-13 responsibilities of the department and the city for traffic and
3-14 parking enforcement and general security in the Capitol Complex,
3-15 including private property within the boundaries of the complex.
3-16 (g) The commission may authorize the director to impose
3-17 within the Capitol Complex measures the director determines to be
3-18 necessary to protect the safety and security of persons and
3-19 property within the complex.
3-20 SECTION 5. Section 411.063, Government Code, is amended by
3-21 amending Subsections (b) and (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read
3-22 as follows:
3-23 (b) Rules adopted under this section may:
3-24 (1) regulate the type, flow, and direction of
3-25 vehicular traffic;
3-26 (2) designate, mark, and assign areas and spaces for
3-27 parking for elected state officials, chief executives and employees
4-1 of state agencies located in the Capitol Complex, state-owned
4-2 vehicles, business vehicles, and visitors to the Capitol Complex;
4-3 (3) establish a system of registration for vehicle
4-4 identification;
4-5 (4) prohibit or restrict the use of areas and spaces
4-6 for parking;
4-7 (5) establish a reasonable fee for parking in a
4-8 parking space on a parking lot or in a parking garage that is
4-9 located in the Capitol Complex, other than a space in the capitol
4-10 driveway or capitol extension garage; and
4-11 (6) provide for the towing and storing, at the expense
4-12 of the owner, of a vehicle parked in violation of a rule.
4-13 (d) Except as provided by Section 443.015, the [The]
4-14 department shall remit to the comptroller for deposit to the credit
4-15 of State Parking Fund No. 125 any fee collected for the parking of
4-16 a vehicle in the Capitol Complex. Money in the fund may be
4-17 appropriated only to the department for the operation, maintenance,
4-18 and improvement of state parking facilities on, and for security
4-19 in, the Capitol Complex.
4-20 (e) To the extent that the City of Austin on January 1,
4-21 1997, operated and maintained parking meters along either side of
4-22 the streets forming the perimeter of the Capitol Complex, the city
4-23 is entitled to continue to operate, maintain, and receive the
4-24 revenue from those meters, except that the city may not operate or
4-25 maintain along those streets meters that accept only quarters.
4-26 SECTION 6. Subchapter E, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
4-27 amended by adding Section 411.0645 to read as follows:
5-1 Sec. 411.0645. TRANSPORTATION PLANNING COMMITTEE. (a) The
5-2 department, City of Austin, the Capital Metropolitan Transit
5-3 Authority, the General Services Commission, the State Preservation
5-4 Board, and The University of Texas at Austin shall each designate a
5-5 representative to a committee established for the purpose of
5-6 coordination of transportation in and adjacent to the Capitol
5-7 Complex. The representative of the department shall convene the
5-8 initial meeting of the committee, and the committee shall elect
5-9 officers and meet as decided by the committee.
5-10 (b) The committee may develop and recommend to the agencies
5-11 represented agreements and memoranda of understanding relating to
5-12 transportation in and adjacent to the Capitol Complex, including
5-13 agreements or understandings relating to parking, vehicle traffic,
5-14 and the location of light rail or other mass transit terminals and
5-15 facilities in that area.
5-16 SECTION 7. Section 411.065(a), Government Code, is amended
5-17 to read as follows:
5-18 (a) A person commits an offense if the person[:]
5-19 [(1) drives or operates a motor vehicle at a speed
5-20 greater than 15 miles per hour in the Capitol Complex; or]
5-21 [(2)] violates a rule of the department adopted under
5-22 Section 411.062 or 411.063.
5-23 SECTION 8. The Texas Public Finance Authority Act (Article
5-24 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section
5-25 24B to read as follows:
5-26 Sec. 24B. CAPITOL COMPLEX PARKING FACILITIES. (a) The
5-27 construction of parking facilities for state officers and employees
6-1 and for visitors to the Capitol Complex, at an estimated cost of
6-2 $29.5 million, is approved for financing in accordance with
6-3 Section 9 of this Act, and bonds may be issued to finance the
6-4 construction in accordance with Section 10 of this Act.
6-5 (b) A parking facility for visitors to the Capitol Complex,
6-6 projected to be built on current state parking Lot 17, shall be
6-7 under the control of the State Preservation Board.
6-8 SECTION 9. Section 27, Texas Public Finance Authority Act
6-9 (Article 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding
6-10 Subsection (d) to read as follows:
6-11 (d) Within the principal amount of the bond issue authorized
6-12 under this Act for purposes of the project approved by this
6-13 section, additional parking facilities, projected to be constructed
6-14 on parking Lot 2E, are approved for financing.
6-15 SECTION 10. Notwithstanding Section 443.015, Government
6-16 Code, as added by this Act, and Section 411.063(d), Government
6-17 Code, as amended by this Act, all revenue collected from parking
6-18 meters installed under Section 443.015 shall be deposited to the
6-19 credit of the Capitol fund until the amount so deposited equals the
6-20 expenditures of the State Preservation Board in the installation of
6-21 those meters. After that board is fully reimbursed for the cost of
6-22 installation, the revenue from the meters shall be divided and
6-23 deposited as provided by Section 443.015(c), Government Code, as
6-24 added by this Act.
6-25 SECTION 11. The importance of this legislation and the
6-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
6-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
7-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
7-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
7-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
7-4 passage, and it is so enacted.