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1	1	By: Van de Putte S.B. No. 1207
2	2	(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2013; March 12, 2013, read
3	3	first time and referred to Committee on Government Organization;
4	4	April 22, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5	5	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 22, 2013,
6	6	sent to printer.)
7	7	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1207 By: Schwertner
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10	10	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	11	AN ACT
12	12	relating to parking and the movement of vehicles in the Capitol
13	13	complex.
14	14	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	15	SECTION 1. Section 411.063, Government Code, is amended by
16	16	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (c-1) to
17	17	read as follows:
18	18	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), the department
19	19	[The State Preservation Board] shall adopt rules for the safe
20	20	movement and the parking of vehicles in the Capitol Complex. Except
21	21	as provided by Subsection (a-1), the [The] department shall
22	22	administer and enforce [the rules adopted by the preservation board
23	23	and shall administer and enforce] this subchapter[. This
24	24	subsection does not affect the authority of the department to adopt
25	25	rules under Section 411.067].
26	26	(a-1) The State Preservation Board shall adopt rules for the
27	27	safe movement and the parking of vehicles in parking areas under the
28	28	charge and control of the preservation board. The department may
29	29	administer and enforce the rules adopted by the preservation board
30	30	under this subsection at the request of the preservation board.
31	31	This subsection does not affect the authority of the department to
32	32	adopt rules under Section 411.067.
33	33	(c-1) Rules adopted under Subsection (a) must include a
34	34	provision that allows a state employee who works outside the
35	35	Capitol complex, as defined by Section 443.0071(b), and whose
36	36	presence at the Capitol is requested by a member of the legislature
37	37	or an elected official in the executive branch of state government
38	38	to park free of charge in a parking garage or parking lot in the
39	39	Capitol complex. This subsection does not apply to the parking
40	40	garage for visitors to the Capitol complex under Section
41	41	443.0151(a) or to a parking area under the charge and control of the
42	42	State Preservation Board.
43	43	SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 411.065, Government
44	44	Code, is amended to read as follows:
45	45	(a) A person commits an offense if the person violates a
46	46	rule of the department adopted under Section 411.062 or a rule of
47	47	the department or the State Preservation Board adopted under
48	48	Section 411.063.
49	49	SECTION 3. Section 2165.2035, Government Code, is amended
50	50	by adding Subsection (g-1) to read as follows:
51	51	(g-1) Any lease of a state-owned parking lot or garage in
52	52	the Capitol complex, as defined by Section 443.0071(b), under this
53	53	section must provide that a state employee whose presence at the
54	54	Capitol is requested by a member of the legislature or an elected
55	55	official in the executive branch of state government may park free
56	56	of charge in the lot or garage. This subsection does not apply to
57	57	the parking garage for visitors to the Capitol complex under
58	58	Section 443.0151(a).
59	59	SECTION 4. (a) On the effective date of this Act, rules of
60	60	the State Preservation Board adopted under Section 411.063,
61	61	Government Code, are transferred to the Department of Public Safety
62	62	of the State of Texas and are continued in effect until amended or
63	63	repealed by the Department of Public Safety. Rules of the State
64	64	Preservation Board adopted under Section 411.063, Government Code,
65	65	relating to parking areas under the charge and control of the
66	66	preservation board are continued in effect as rules of the
67	67	preservation board. As a result of the application of this
68	68	subsection, a rule may exist as a duplicate rule of the State
69	69	Preservation Board and the Department of Public Safety of the State
70	70	of Texas applicable to different areas on and after the effective
71	71	date of this Act.
72	72	(b) The Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas
73	73	shall adopt or amend rules, as applicable, as required by
74	74	Subsection (c-1), Section 411.063, Government Code, as added by
75	75	this Act, not later than October 1, 2013.
76	76	(c) Subsection (g-1), Section 2165.2035, Government Code,
77	77	as added by this Act, applies only to a lease entered into on or
78	78	after the effective date of this Act.
79	79	SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act to Section
80	80	411.065, Government Code, applies only to an offense committed on
81	81	or after the effective date of this Act. An offense committed
82	82	before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
83	83	effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is
84	84	continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section,
85	85	an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if
86	86	any element of the offense occurred before that date.
87	87	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
88	88	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
89	89	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
90	90	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
91	91	Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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