HBA-ATS C.S.H.B. 516 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisC.S.H.B. 516 By: Gray Urban Affairs 4/6/1999 Committee Report (Substituted) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Under current law, a municipality may enforce an order issued by an administrative adjudication hearing officer finding that a person has violated a parking and stopping offense by impounding the vehicle, placing a boot on the vehicle, imposing additional fines, or denying parking permits. However, only municipalities with populations greater than 125,000 and operating under a councilmanager form of government or with populations of 500,000 or more are empowered to do so. C.S.H.B. 516 modifies the restrictions based on municipal population to grant all municipalities that have populations greater than 40,000, rather than municipalities that have populations greater than 125,000 and operate under a council-manager form of government or have populations of 500,000 or more, the authority to enforce orders related to parking and stopping offenses. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 682.001, Transportation Code, to provide that this chapter (Administrative Adjudication of Vehicle Parking and Stopping Offenses in Certain Municipalities) applies only to a municipality that has a population greater than 40,000, rather than a municipality that has a population greater than 125,000 and operates under a council-manager form of government or has a population of 500,000 or more. SECTION 2. Emergency clause. Effective date: upon passage. COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE C.S.H.B. 516 modifies the original bill in SECTION 1 by amending Section 682.001 (Applicability), Transportation Code, to provide that Chapter 682 applies only to a municipality that has a population greater than 40,000, rather than a municipality that has a population greater than 125,000 and operates under a council-manager form of government or has a population of 500,000 or more, rather than repealing Section 682.001. Repealing Section 682.001 would have granted all municipalities, regardless of size, the authority to enforce orders related to parking and stopping offenses.