By Hupp                                                H.B. No. 570
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                                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.