1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 416
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1999; February 8, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and
1-4 Military Installations; February 23, 1999, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 23, 1999, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to parking privileges for vehicles of certain veterans or
1-10 the surviving spouses of certain veterans.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 681.008, Transportation Code, is amended
1-13 to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 681.008. PARKING PRIVILEGES: CERTAIN VETERANS [WITH
1-15 DISABILITIES; CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS]. A vehicle
1-16 on which license plates issued under Section 502.254, [or] 502.255,
1-17 502.257, 502.259, or 502.260 are displayed is exempt from the
1-18 payment of a parking fee, including a fee collected through a
1-19 parking meter, charged by a governmental authority other than a
1-20 branch of the federal government, when being operated by or for the
1-21 transportation of:
1-22 (1) the person who registered the vehicle under
1-23 Section 502.254(a), [or] 502.255, 502.257, 502.259, or 502.260; or
1-24 (2) a person described in Section 502.254(b) if the
1-25 vehicle is registered under that subsection.
1-26 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-31 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-32 passage, and it is so enacted.
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