By Uresti                                             H.B. No. 3114
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                                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.