Bill Text: TX HB126 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to parking placards for vehicles of persons with disabilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-10 - Left pending in subcommittee [HB126 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB126-Introduced.html
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| By: Fletcher | H.B. No. 126 | |
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| relating to parking placards for vehicles of persons with | ||
| disabilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 681.003(b), (c), and (e), | ||
| Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) An application for a disabled parking placard must be: | ||
| (1) on a form furnished by the department; | ||
| (2) submitted to the county assessor-collector of the | ||
| county in which the person with the disability: | ||
| (A) resides if the person has a permanent | ||
| disability and is a resident of this state; | ||
| (B) resides or is seeking medical treatment if | ||
| the person has a temporary disability and is a resident of this | ||
| state; or | ||
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| treatment if the person [ |
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| (3) accompanied by a fee of $5 if the application is | ||
| for a temporary placard. | ||
| (c) Subject to Subsections (e) and (f), the first | ||
| application must be accompanied by a notarized written statement or | ||
| written prescription of a physician licensed to practice medicine | ||
| in this state or a state adjacent to this state, or authorized by | ||
| applicable law to practice medicine in a hospital or other health | ||
| facility of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, | ||
| certifying and providing evidence acceptable to the department that | ||
| the person making the application or on whose behalf the | ||
| application is made is legally blind or has a mobility problem that | ||
| substantially impairs the person's ability to ambulate. The | ||
| statement or prescription must include a certification of whether | ||
| the disability is temporary or permanent and information acceptable | ||
| to the department to determine the type of disabled parking placard | ||
| for which the person [ |
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| determine a person's eligibility based on evidence provided by the | ||
| applicant establishing legal blindness or mobility impairment. | ||
| (e) If a first application for a disabled parking placard | ||
| under this section is made by or on behalf of a person with: | ||
| (1) a mobility problem caused by a disorder of the | ||
| foot, the notarized written statement or written prescription | ||
| required by Subsection (c) may be issued by a person licensed to | ||
| practice podiatry in this state or a state adjacent to this state; | ||
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| (2) a disability caused by an impairment of vision as | ||
| provided by Section 681.001(2), the notarized written statement or | ||
| written prescription required by Subsection (c) may be issued by a | ||
| person licensed to engage in the practice of optometry or the | ||
| practice of therapeutic optometry in this state or a state adjacent | ||
| to this state; or | ||
| (3) a temporary mobility problem that substantially | ||
| impairs the person's ability to ambulate, the notarized written | ||
| statement or written prescription required by Subsection (c) may be | ||
| issued by a person licensed to practice chiropractic, as described | ||
| by Section 201.002, Occupations Code, in this state or a state | ||
| adjacent to this state. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
