By: Lindsay S.B. No. 416
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to parking privileges for vehicles of certain veterans or
1-2 the surviving spouses of certain veterans.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 681.008, Transportation Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 681.008. PARKING PRIVILEGES: CERTAIN VETERANS [WITH
1-7 DISABILITIES; CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS]. A vehicle
1-8 on which license plates issued under Section 502.254, [or] 502.255,
1-9 502.257, 502.259, or 502.260 are displayed is exempt from the
1-10 payment of a parking fee, including a fee collected through a
1-11 parking meter, charged by a governmental authority other than a
1-12 branch of the federal government, when being operated by or for the
1-13 transportation of:
1-14 (1) the person who registered the vehicle under
1-15 Section 502.254(a), [or] 502.255, 502.257, 502.259, or 502.260; 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.