TITLE: Relating to the waiver of state park entrance, admission, and vehicle entrance fees for certain holders of state parklands passports and their immediate family members.

SUMMARY: Relating to the waiver of state park entrance, admission, and vehicle entrance fees for certain holders of state parklands passports and their immediate family members.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the waiver of state park entrance, admission, and vehicle entrance fees for certain holders of state parklands passports and their immediate family members. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Sections 13.018(a) and (c), Parks and Wildlife Code, are amended to read as follows: (a) The following people may apply to the department for a state parklands passport: (1) a resident of this state who is 65 years old or over who has resided in the state for six consecutive months preceding the date of application for a parklands passport or any other individual in a category that the commission by rule designates as a resident of this state who is 65 years old or over; (2) an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed services; (3) an active duty [a] member of the United States armed services or the Texas military forces as defined by Section 437.001, Government Code [on active duty];(4) a surviving spouse, parent, child, or sibling of a person who died while serving in the United States armed forces; and (5) an individual who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual. (c) The holder of a state parklands passport issued on or before August 31, 1995, a person whose birth date is before September 1, 1930, or a person described by Subsection (a)(2), (3), or (4) is entitled to enter any state park without payment of an entrance or admission fee. Each immediate family member accompanying the holder of a state parklands passport described by this subsection may enter the state park without payment of an entrance or admission fee. When a fee is charged by the department for entrance of a vehicle into a state park, the vehicle of the holder of a state parklands passport described by this subsection or an immediate family member of the holder is exempt from the fee when accompanying the holder [is present].SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.