By: Farias (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) H.B. No. 2928

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011; May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and Military Installations; May 12, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 12, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to privileged parking for recipients of the Silver Star Medal.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 681.008(b), Transportation Code, as amended by Chapters 115 (H.B. 2020) and 319 (H.B. 618), Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:

(b) A vehicle on which license plates described by Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202, Section 504.315(c), (d), (e), (f), [or] (g), or (h), or Section 504.316 are displayed is exempt from the payment of a parking fee collected through a parking meter charged by a governmental authority other than a branch of the federal government, when being operated by or for the transportation of:

(1) the person who registered the vehicle under Section 504.202(a), Section 504.315(c), (d), (e), (f), [or] (g), or (h), or Section 504.316;

(2) a person described in Section 504.202(b) if the vehicle is registered under that subsection; or

(3) the owner or operator of a vehicle displaying license plates described by Subsection (a)(2).

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.

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