Bill Text: TX HB168 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to privileged parking for Distinguished Flying Cross medal recipients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB168 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB168-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Larson, Frullo, Fallon H.B. No. 168
(Senate Sponsor - Campbell)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015;
May 6, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 19, 2015, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 19, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to privileged parking for Distinguished Flying Cross medal
recipients.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 681.008(b), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) A vehicle on which license plates described by
Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202, 504.308,
[Section] 504.310, 504.315, [or] 504.316, or 504.319 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), 504.308, [Section] 504.310, 504.315, [or]
504.316, or 504.319;
(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, 2015.
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