Bill Text: TX HB2283 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the notification of a peace officer through an indication associated with vehicle registration that the vehicle owner may be transporting a person with a disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2283 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2283-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the notification of a peace officer through an indication associated with vehicle registration that the vehicle owner may be transporting a person with a disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2283 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2283-Introduced.html
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By: Martinez | H.B. No. 2283 |
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relating to the notification of a peace officer through an | ||
indication associated with vehicle registration that the vehicle | ||
owner may be transporting a person with a disability. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 502, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 502.062 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 502.062. REGISTRATION BY OWNER WHO TRANSPORTS | ||
PASSENGERS WITH DISABILITIES. (a) In this section, "person with a | ||
disability" means a person with: | ||
(1) a physical, intellectual, behavioral, or | ||
cognitive impairment; | ||
(2) autism; or | ||
(3) a health condition or disability that may impede | ||
effective communication with a peace officer. | ||
(b) An application for registration must provide space for | ||
the applicant to voluntarily indicate that the applicant may | ||
transport a person with a disability. The department may request | ||
from a person who makes an indication under this subsection | ||
verification in the form of a personal attestation. | ||
(c) The department shall provide to the Department of Public | ||
Safety the vehicle registration information of a person who | ||
voluntarily indicated on an application under Subsection (b) that | ||
the person may transport a person with a disability. The department | ||
may not provide to the Department of Public Safety information that | ||
shows the type of health condition or disability a person has. | ||
(d) The Department of Public Safety shall establish a system | ||
to include information received under Subsection (c) in the Texas | ||
Law Enforcement Telecommunications System for the purpose of | ||
alerting a peace officer who makes a traffic stop that the operator | ||
of the stopped vehicle may be transporting a person with a | ||
disability. | ||
(e) The Department of Public Safety may not make information | ||
received under Subsection (c) available in the Texas Law | ||
Enforcement Telecommunications System to a person who has access to | ||
the system under a contract unless the contract prohibits the | ||
person from disclosing that information to a person who is not | ||
subject to the contract. | ||
(f) The department may not issue to a person without the | ||
person's consent a license plate with a visible marking that | ||
indicates to the general public that the person voluntarily | ||
indicated on an application under Subsection (b) that the person | ||
may transport a person with a disability. | ||
(g) Except as provided by Subsection (e), information | ||
supplied to the department relating to a person with a disability is | ||
for the confidential use of the department and the Department of | ||
Public Safety and may not be disclosed to any person. | ||
SECTION 2. A Department of Public Safety contract that | ||
allows a person to access the Texas Law Enforcement | ||
Telecommunications System and that is in effect before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date on which the contract was entered into, and that law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose, except that the contract: | ||
(1) continues only for the term of the contract; and | ||
(2) may not be renewed unless the renewed contract | ||
includes the prohibition required by Section 502.062(e), | ||
Transportation Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |