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
  85R14833 JXC-D
 
  By: Kuempel H.B. No. 3583
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.
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