By Hupp H.B. No. 570
76R382 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to display of a driver's license number on a disabled
1-3 parking placard.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 681.0031(b), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The department may require the number to be recorded
1-8 [county assessor-collector shall record the number] on any disabled
1-9 parking placard issued to the applicant. If the number is recorded
1-10 on the placard, it must be recorded in a manner specified by the
1-11 department that prevents the number from being read from outside
1-12 the vehicle when the placard is displayed as provided by this
1-13 chapter.
1-14 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
1-15 a disabled parking placard issued or renewed on or after the
1-16 effective date of this Act.
1-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.