By Uresti H.B. No. 3114 76R12640 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing counties to permit certain veterans to park 1-3 free of charge in county parking facilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 445, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 445.004 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 445.004. FREE PARKING IN COUNTY PARKING FACILITIES. 1-8 (a) The commissioners court of a county by order may permit former 1-9 prisoners of war or persons awarded the Purple Heart or a 1-10 Congressional Medal of Honor to park free of charge in any county 1-11 parking facility. 1-12 (b) The commissioners court of the county may adopt 1-13 procedures to administer this section, including procedures to 1-14 verify the status of a person described by Subsection (a). 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.