Bill Text: TX HB659 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the waiver of state park, museum, and other state-operated facility entrance fees for persons with certain disabilities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-15 - Referred to Agriculture, Water, & Rural Affairs [HB659 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB659-Introduced.html

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84R3533 AAF-D
By: Raymond H.B. No. 659

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the waiver of state park, museum, and other
state-operated facility entrance fees for persons with certain
disabilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 4, Government Code, is amended
by adding Chapter 451 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 451. FEE WAIVER FOR PERSONS WITH CERTAIN DISABILITIES
Sec. 451.001. FEES WAIVED FOR PERSONS WITH CERTAIN
DISABILITIES. The appropriate state agency shall waive the
entrance fee and any vehicle entrance fee to a state park, museum,
or other state-operated facility for a person with an intellectual
or developmental disability and a paid personal attendant present
to assist that person.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.