By Uresti H.B. No. 3114 76R9032 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to permitting certain veterans to park free of charge in 1-3 certain 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 CERTAIN COUNTY PARKING 1-8 FACILITIES. (a) This section applies only to a county with a 1-9 population of 1.18 million or more. 1-10 (b) A former prisoner of war or a person awarded the Purple 1-11 Heart or a Congressional Medal of Honor may park free of charge in 1-12 any county parking facility. 1-13 (c) The commissioners court of the county shall adopt 1-14 procedures to administer this section. 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.