Bill Text: TX SB1264 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of disabled parking placards to certain day activity and health services facilities that transport persons with a disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Transportation [SB1264 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1264-Introduced.html
  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.
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