By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1533
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2005; March 22, 2005, read
first time and referred to Committee on Government Organization;
April 18, 2005, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 18, 2005,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1533 By: Gallegos
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.
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