H.B. No. 2928
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to privileged parking for recipients of the Silver Star
  Medal.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 681.008(b), Transportation Code, as
  amended by Chapters 115 (H.B. 2020) and 319 (H.B. 618), Acts of the
  81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted and amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  A vehicle on which license plates described by
  Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202, Section
  504.315(c), (d), (e), (f), [or] (g), or (h), or Section 504.316 are
  displayed is exempt from the payment of a parking fee collected
  through a parking meter charged by a governmental authority other
  than a branch of the federal government, when being operated by or
  for the transportation of:
               (1)  the person who registered the vehicle under
  Section 504.202(a), Section 504.315(c), (d), (e), (f), [or] (g), or
  (h), or Section 504.316;
               (2)  a person described in Section 504.202(b) if the
  vehicle is registered under that subsection; or
               (3)  the owner or operator of a vehicle displaying
  license plates described by Subsection (a)(2).
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2928 was passed by the House on April
  26, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2928 was passed by the Senate on May
  19, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor