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By:  Barrientos                                                   S.B. No. 1533


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to parking by state employees in state-owned garages.                
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (g), Section 2165.2035, Government 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(g)  Any lease of a state-owned parking lot or garage under 
this section must contain a provision that allows state employees 
who work hours other than regular working hours under Section 
658.005 to retain their parking privileges in a state-owned parking 
lot or garage.  Such a lease must also provide that any state 
employee showing a State of Texas employee identification card is 
permitted to park in any state-owned parking lot or garage free of 
charge after normal business hours and on weekends.  The foregoing 
provision does not apply to a lease to an institution of higher 
education under which all spaces in a parking lot or garage are 
leased for a time certain if parking in an alternate state-owned 
parking lot or garage is available to state employees.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.