1-1 By: Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 1575 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999; 1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to double parking in a central business district. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 545.302, Transportation Code, is amended 1-12 by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-13 (g) If the governing body of a municipality determines that 1-14 it is necessary to improve the economic development of the 1-15 municipality's central business district and that it will not 1-16 adversely affect public safety, the governing body may adopt an 1-17 ordinance regulating the standing, stopping, or parking of a 1-18 vehicle at a place described by Subsection (a)(1), other than a 1-19 road or highway in the state highway system, in the central 1-20 business district of the municipality as defined in the ordinance. 1-21 To the extent of any conflict between the ordinance and Subsection 1-22 (a)(1), the ordinance controls. 1-23 SECTION 2. Section 545.303, Transportation Code, is amended 1-24 by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-25 (e) To the extent of any conflict between Subsection (a) or 1-26 (b) and a municipal ordinance adopted under Section 545.302(g), the 1-27 ordinance controls. 1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-34 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-35 * * * * *