H.B. No. 2020
AN ACT
relating to parking privileges for veterans with disabilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 681.008(a) and (b), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) A vehicle may be parked for an unlimited period in a
parking space or area that is designated specifically for persons
with physical disabilities if[:
[(1)] the vehicle:
(1) is being operated by or for the transportation of:
(A) the person who registered the vehicle under
Section 504.202(a)[;] or
[(B)] a person described by Section 504.202(b) if
the vehicle is registered under that subsection; and
(B) displays [(2) there are displayed on the
vehicle] special license plates issued under Section 504.202; or
(2) displays license plates issued by another state of
the United States that indicate on the face of the license plates
that the owner or operator of the vehicle is a disabled veteran of
the United States armed forces.
(b) A vehicle on which license plates described by
Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202 or Section
504.315(c), (d), (e), or (g) 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) or Section 504.315(c), (d), (e), or (g); [or]
(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. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to the standing of a vehicle in a parking space or area designated
specifically for persons with physical disabilities on or after the
effective date of this Act. The standing of a vehicle in a parking
space or area designated specifically for persons with physical
disabilities before the effective date of this Act is governed by
the law in effect on that date, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2020 was passed by the House on April
22, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 149, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2020 was passed by the Senate on May
12, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor