By McCall H.B. No. 1979
76R5152 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to parking privileges for the vehicle of a former prisoner
1-3 of war or the surviving spouse of a former prisoner of war.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 681.008, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 681.008. PARKING PRIVILEGES: CERTAIN VETERANS [WITH
1-8 DISABILITIES; CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS]. A vehicle
1-9 on which license plates issued under Section 502.254, [or] 502.255,
1-10 or 502.257 are displayed is exempt from the payment of a parking
1-11 fee, including a fee collected through a parking meter, charged by
1-12 a governmental authority other than a branch of the federal
1-13 government, when being operated by or for the transportation of:
1-14 (1) the person who registered the vehicle under
1-15 Section 502.254(a), [or] 502.255, or 502.257; or
1-16 (2) a person described in Section 502.254(b) if the
1-17 vehicle is registered under that subsection.
1-18 SECTION 2. 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,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.