| 1 | 1 | | By: Uresti S.B. No. 963 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 2011; March 8, 2011, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and |
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| 4 | 4 | | Homeland Security; March 17, 2011, reported favorably by the |
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| 5 | 5 | | following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 17, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to certification of a person as eligible for disabled |
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| 11 | 11 | | parking privileges. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (f), Section 681.003, Transportation |
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| 14 | 14 | | Code, as added by Chapter 842 (S.B. 1984), Acts of the 81st |
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| 15 | 15 | | Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (f) This subsection applies only to the first application |
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| 17 | 17 | | for a disabled parking placard submitted by a person [who resides in |
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| 18 | 18 | | a county with a population of 125,000 or less]. The notarized |
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| 19 | 19 | | written statement or prescription may be issued by: |
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| 20 | 20 | | (1) a person acting under the delegation and |
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| 21 | 21 | | supervision of a licensed physician in conformance with Subchapter |
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| 22 | 22 | | B, Chapter 157, Occupations Code; or |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2) a physician assistant licensed to practice in this |
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| 24 | 24 | | state acting as the agent of a licensed physician under Section |
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| 25 | 25 | | 204.202(e), Occupations Code. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 27 | 27 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 28 | 28 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 29 | 29 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 30 | 30 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 31 | 31 | | * * * * * |
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