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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