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Amend CSSB 985 (committee printing) as follows:
(1) Insert the following appropriately numbered SECTION of
the bill:
SECTION __. Section 681.001, Transportation Code, is
amended by amending Subdivision (2) and adding Subdivision (3-a) to
read as follows:
(2) "Disability" means a condition in which a person
[has]:
(A) has mobility problems that substantially
impair the person's ability to ambulate;
(B) has visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the
better eye with correcting lenses; [or]
(C) has visual acuity of more than 20/200 but
with a limited field of vision in which the widest diameter of the
visual field subtends an angle of 20 degrees or less; or
(D) is an expectant or new mother.
(3-a) "Expectant or new mother" means a person during
the period extending from the 30th day before the person is due to
give birth to the 90th day after the person is due to give birth.
(2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, strike the introductory
language (page 1, lines 13 and 14) and substitute the following:
SECTION 1. Section 681.003, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
follows:
(3) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended Subsection (c),
Section 681.003, Transportation Code (page 1, line 15), strike
"Subsection (e)" and substitute "Subsections [Subsection] (e) and
(f)".
(4) In SECTION 1 of the bill, at the end of the SECTION (page
1, between lines 33 and 34) insert the following:
(f) An application for a disabled parking placard by an
expectant or new mother must be accompanied by evidence of the date
the person is due to give birth provided by the person's physician.
(5) Renumber SECTIONS of the bill appropriately.