By:  Danburg                                           H.B. No. 575
       73R1013 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to repossession under a worker's lien.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 70.001, Property Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  A worker may take possession of an article under
    1-7  Subsection (b) only if the person obligated under the repair
    1-8  contract has signed a notice stating that the article may be
    1-9  subject to repossession under this section.  A notice under this
   1-10  subsection must be:
   1-11              (1)  separate from the written repair contract; or
   1-12              (2)  printed on the written repair contract in a
   1-13  conspicuous manner with a separate signature line.
   1-14        (d)  A worker who takes possession of an article under
   1-15  Subsection (b) may require a person obligated under the repair
   1-16  contract to pay the costs of repossession as a condition of
   1-17  reclaiming the article only to the extent of the reasonable fair
   1-18  market value of the services required to take possession of the
   1-19  article.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect  September 1, 1993.
   1-21        (b)  This Act applies only to a repair contract entered into
   1-22  on or after September 1, 1993.  A repair contract entered into
   1-23  before September 1, 1993,  is governed by the law as it existed at
   1-24  the time the contract was entered into, and that law is continued
    2-1  in effect for that purpose.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.