By Lindsay                                             S.B. No. 416
         76R4781 DWS-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to parking privileges for vehicles of certain veterans or
 1-3     the surviving spouses of certain veterans.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 681.008, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 681.008.  PARKING PRIVILEGES:  CERTAIN VETERANS [WITH
 1-8     DISABILITIES;  CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS].  A vehicle
 1-9     on which license plates issued under Section 502.254, [or] 502.255,
1-10     502.257, 502.259, or 502.260 are displayed is exempt from the
1-11     payment of a  parking fee, including a fee collected through a
1-12     parking meter, charged by a governmental authority other than a
1-13     branch of the federal government, when being operated by or for the
1-14     transportation of:
1-15                 (1)  the person who registered the vehicle under
1-16     Section 502.254(a), [or] 502.255, 502.257, 502.259, or 502.260; or
1-17                 (2)  a person described in Section 502.254(b) if the
1-18     vehicle is registered under that subsection.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.