Bill Text: TX HB3583 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to operators of motor vehicles who use temporary disabled parking placards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-20 - Left pending in committee [HB3583 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3583-Introduced.html
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| By: Kuempel | H.B. No. 3583 | |
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| relating to operators of motor vehicles who use temporary disabled | ||
| parking placards. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 681.006, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) An operator of a vehicle who parks the vehicle in a | ||
| parking space or area that is designated specifically for persons | ||
| with physical disabilities and places on the rearview mirror of the | ||
| vehicle's front windshield a disabled parking placard issued for a | ||
| person with a temporary disability shall, on the request of a peace | ||
| officer, provide written evidence of the disability of the operator | ||
| or of a person being transported by the operator, as applicable, for | ||
| whom the placard was issued. The written evidence must be: | ||
| (1) issued by the department; or | ||
| (2) signed by a person authorized to issue a statement | ||
| or prescription under Section 681.003(c), (e), or (f). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
