By: Blackwood H.B. No. 709 73R2935 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to storage fees charged by a vehicle storage facility. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 14(c), Vehicle Storage Facility Act 1-5 (Article 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (c) The operator of a vehicle storage facility may not 1-7 charge less than $5 or more than $15 for each day or part of a day 1-8 for storage of a vehicle. A daily storage fee may be charged for a 1-9 day regardless of whether the vehicle is stored for 24 hours of the 1-10 day. For the purposes of this subsection, a day is considered to 1-11 begin and end at midnight. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.