88R8962 SRA-F
By: Parker S.B. No. 1264
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of disabled parking placards to certain
day activity and health services facilities that transport persons
with a disability.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 681.0032, Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 681.0032. ISSUANCE OF DISABLED PARKING PLACARDS TO
CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS. (a) The department shall provide for the
issuance of disabled parking placards described by Section 681.002
for a van or bus operated by:
(1) an institution, facility, or residential
retirement community for the elderly in which a person eligible for
a license plate under [described by] Section 504.201 [504.201(a)]
resides, including an institution licensed under Chapter 242,
Health and Safety Code, and a facility licensed under Chapter 246 or
247 of that code; or
(2) a day activity and health services facility
licensed under Chapter 103, Human Resources Code, that provides
services to a person eligible for a license plate under Section
504.201.
(b) The application for a disabled parking placard must be
made in the manner provided by Section 681.003(b) and be
accompanied by a written statement signed by the administrator or
manager of, as applicable:
(1) the institution, facility, or retirement
community described by Subsection (a)(1) certifying to the
department that the institution, facility, or retirement community
regularly transports, as a part of the services that the
institution, facility, or retirement community provides, one or
more persons eligible for a license plate under [described by]
Section 504.201 [504.201(a)] who reside in the institution,
facility, or retirement community; or
(2) the facility described by Subsection (a)(2)
certifying to the department that the facility regularly
transports, as a part of the services that the facility provides,
one or more persons eligible for a license plate under Section
504.201.
(c) The department shall determine the eligibility of an
[the] institution, facility, or retirement community for a disabled
parking placard based on the evidence the applicant provides.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.