By: Raney (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez) H.B. No. 643

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019; May 6, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 15, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the location at which an application for a disabled parking placard may be made.

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

SECTION 1. Section 681.003(b), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) An application for a disabled parking placard must be:

(1) on a form furnished by the department;

(2) submitted to the county assessor-collector of the county in which the person with the disability:

(A) resides; or

(B) [in which the applicant] is seeking medical treatment [if the applicant is not a resident of this state]; and

(3) accompanied by a fee of $5 if the application is for a temporary placard.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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