By: Larson, Frullo, Fallon H.B. No. 168
        (Senate Sponsor - Campbell)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015;
  May 6, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation; May 19, 2015, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 19, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to privileged parking for Distinguished Flying Cross medal
  recipients.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 681.008(b), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A vehicle on which license plates described by
  Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202, 504.308,
  [Section] 504.310, 504.315, [or] 504.316, or 504.319 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), 504.308, [Section] 504.310, 504.315, [or]
  504.316, or 504.319;
               (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, 2015.
 
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