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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 416 passed the Senate on
         March 11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 416 passed the House on
         May 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor