76R13299 DRH-D                           
         By Maxey                                              H.B. No. 1575
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1575:
         By Edwards                                        C.S.H.B. No. 1575
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to double parking in a central business district.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 545.302, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-5     by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
 1-6           (g)  If the governing body of a municipality determines that
 1-7     it is necessary to improve the economic development of the
 1-8     municipality's central business district and that it will not
 1-9     adversely affect public safety, the governing body may adopt an
1-10     ordinance regulating the standing, stopping, or parking of a
1-11     vehicle at a place described by Subsection (a)(1), other than a
1-12     road or highway in the state highway system, in the central
1-13     business district of the municipality as defined in the ordinance.
1-14     To the extent of any conflict between the ordinance and Subsection
1-15     (a)(1), the ordinance controls.
1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 545.303, Transportation Code, is amended
1-17     by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-18           (e)  To the extent of any conflict between Subsection (a) or
1-19     (b) and a municipal ordinance adopted under Section 545.302(g), the
1-20     ordinance controls.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.