By:  Blackwood                                         H.B. No. 711
       73R3763 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the storage and sale of certain vehicles.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 70.006(a), Property Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  A holder of a lien under this subchapter on a motor
    1-7  vehicle subject to the Certificate of Title Act, as amended
    1-8  (Article 6687-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or on a motorboat,
    1-9  vessel, or outboard motor for which a certificate of title is
   1-10  required under Subchapter B, Chapter 31, Parks and Wildlife Code,
   1-11  as amended, who retains possession of the vehicle, motorboat,
   1-12  vessel, or outboard motor for 30 days after the day that the
   1-13  charges accrue shall give written notice to the owner and each
   1-14  holder of a lien recorded on the certificate of title.  The notice
   1-15  must be sent by certified mail with return receipt requested and
   1-16  must include the amount of the charges and a request for payment.
   1-17  The holder of a lien under this subchapter is not required as a
   1-18  condition of sale under Subsection (b) to obtain a release of a
   1-19  lien held by a person to whom the holder of the lien under this
   1-20  subchapter has given notice as provided by this section.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.