By: Van de Putte	S.B. No. 1207

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to parking and the movement of vehicles in the Capitol
	complex.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 411.063, Government Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (c-1) to
	read as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), the department
	[The State Preservation Board] shall adopt rules for the safe
	movement and the parking of vehicles in the Capitol Complex. Except
	as provided by Subsection (a-1), the [The] department shall
	administer and enforce [the rules adopted by the preservation board
	and shall administer and enforce] this subchapter[. This
	subsection does not affect the authority of the department to adopt
	rules under Section 411.067].
	(a-1)  The State Preservation Board shall adopt rules for the
	safe movement and the parking of vehicles in parking areas under the
	charge and control of the preservation board.  The department may
	administer and enforce the rules adopted by the preservation board
	under this subsection at the request of the preservation board.
	This subsection does not affect the authority of the department to
	adopt rules under Section 411.067.
	(c-1)  Rules adopted under Subsection (a) must include a
	provision that allows a state employee who works outside the
	Capitol complex, as defined by Section 443.0071(b), and whose
	presence at the Capitol is requested by a member of the legislature
	or an elected official in the executive branch of state government
	to park free of charge in a parking garage or parking lot in the
	Capitol complex.  This subsection does not apply to the parking
	garage for visitors to the Capitol complex under Section
	443.0151(a) or to a parking area under the charge and control of the
	State Preservation Board.
	SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 411.065, Government
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A person commits an offense if the person violates a
	rule of the department adopted under Section 411.062 or a rule of
	the department or the State Preservation Board adopted under
	Section 411.063.
	SECTION 3.  Section 2165.2035, Government Code, is amended
	by adding Subsection (g-1) to read as follows:
	(g-1)  Any lease of a state-owned parking lot or garage in
	the Capitol complex, as defined by Section 443.0071(b), under this
	section must provide that a state employee whose presence at the
	Capitol is requested by a member of the legislature or an elected
	official in the executive branch of state government may park free
	of charge in the lot or garage.  This subsection does not apply to
	the parking garage for visitors to the Capitol complex under
	Section 443.0151(a).
	SECTION 4.  (a)  On the effective date of this Act, rules of
	the State Preservation Board adopted under Section 411.063,
	Government Code, are transferred to the Department of Public Safety
	of the State of Texas and are continued in effect until amended or
	repealed by the Department of Public Safety.  Rules of the State
	Preservation Board adopted under Section 411.063, Government Code,
	relating to parking areas under the charge and control of the
	preservation board are continued in effect as rules of the
	preservation board.  As a result of the application of this
	subsection, a rule may exist as a duplicate rule of the State
	Preservation Board and the Department of Public Safety of the State
	of Texas applicable to different areas on and after the effective
	date of this Act.
	(b)  The Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas
	shall adopt or amend rules, as applicable, as required by
	Subsection (c-1), Section 411.063, Government Code, as added by
	this Act, not later than October 1, 2013.
	(c)  Subsection (g-1), Section 2165.2035, Government Code,
	as added by this Act, applies only to a lease entered into on or
	after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 5.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
	411.065, Government Code, applies only to an offense committed on
	or after the effective date of this Act. An offense committed
	before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
	effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is
	continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section,
	an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if
	any element of the offense occurred before that date.
	SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2013.