By:  Zaffirini                                          S.B. No. 32
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the application fee for a disabled parking placard.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 681.003, Transportation
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  An application for a disabled parking placard must be:
 1-7                 (1)  on a form furnished by the department; and
 1-8                 (2)  submitted to the county assessor-collector of the
 1-9     county in which the person with the disability resides[; and]
1-10                 [(3)  accompanied by a fee of $5].
1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 681.005, Transportation Code, is amended
1-12     to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 681.005.  DUTY [DUTIES] OF COUNTY ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR.
1-14     Each county assessor-collector shall send a copy of each
1-15     application for a disabled parking placard to the department[:]
1-16                 [(1)  each fee collected under Section 681.003, to be
1-17     deposited in the state highway fund to defray the cost of providing
1-18     the disabled parking placard; and
1-19                 ((2)  a copy of each application for a disabled parking
1-20     placard].
1-21           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2004, and
1-22     applies only to applications for disabled parking placards
1-23     submitted to the Texas Department of Transportation on or after
1-24     that date.  Applications filed before the effective date of this
1-25     Act are covered by the law in effect on the date the application
 2-1     was submitted, and the former law is continued in effect for that
 2-2     purpose.