Bill Text: TX HB1545 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: Relating to a study regarding the use of certain public transportation services by persons with disabilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1545 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1545-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a study regarding the use of certain public transportation services by persons with disabilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1545 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1545-Comm_Sub.html
By: Allen, Riddle (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) | H.B. No. 1545 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2013; | ||
April 30, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 14, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
May 14, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1545 | By: Ellis |
|
||
|
||
relating to a study regarding the use of certain public | ||
transportation services by persons with disabilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) In this Act, "providers" and "services" have | ||
the meanings assigned by Section 461.009, Transportation Code. | ||
(b) The Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities, | ||
in coordination with providers located in rural and urban areas of | ||
the state, and paratransit advocacy groups, shall conduct a study | ||
to determine: | ||
(1) the feasibility of standardizing the process of | ||
certifying an individual's eligibility for services in the state; | ||
and | ||
(2) whether the current 21-day provision of services | ||
by a provider is adequate to meet the needs of visitors with | ||
disabilities to locations served by the provider. | ||
(c) Not later than January 1, 2015, the Governor's Committee | ||
on People with Disabilities shall submit a report on the findings of | ||
the study performed under this section to the governor, lieutenant | ||
governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and standing | ||
committees of the senate and house of representatives that have | ||
jurisdiction over issues related to transportation. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
* * * * * |