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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