1-1 By: Uresti (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 3114 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 Veteran 1-4 Affairs and Military Installations; May 13, 1999, reported 1-5 favorably by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to authorizing counties to permit certain veterans to park 1-10 free of charge in county parking facilities. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 445, Local Government Code, 1-13 is amended by adding Section 445.004 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 445.004. FREE PARKING IN COUNTY PARKING FACILITIES. 1-15 (a) The commissioners court of a county by order may permit former 1-16 prisoners of war or persons awarded the Purple Heart or a 1-17 Congressional Medal of Honor to park free of charge in any county 1-18 parking facility. 1-19 (b) The commissioners court of the county may adopt 1-20 procedures to administer this section, including procedures to 1-21 verify the status of a person described by Subsection (a). 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-27 * * * * *