By: Bosse H.B. No. 1048 73R4752 JD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the operation of tow trucks. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 1135, Acts of the 70th 1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1987 (Article 6687-9b, Vernon's Texas 1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subdivisions (6) and (7) to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 (6) "Compensation" means a specific, direct, and 1-9 identifiable charge for a towing occurrence. 1-10 (7) "Disabled motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle 1-11 that cannot be normally or safely driven because of an engine 1-12 malfunction, body damage, or equipment impairment. A motor vehicle 1-13 is not a disabled motor vehicle merely because it is unoccupied. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.