73R8037 JD-F
          By Yarbrough                                          H.B. No. 1070
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1070:
          By Siebert                                        C.S.H.B. No. 1070
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the regulation of vehicle storage facilities; providing
    1-3  penalties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 17, Vehicle Storage Facility Act (Article
    1-6  6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 17.  OFFENSES; PENALTIES <PENALTY>.  (a)  A person
    1-8  commits an offense if the person:
    1-9              (1)  operates a vehicle storage facility that does not
   1-10  have a valid license issued under this article;
   1-11              (2)  violates any other provision of this article; or
   1-12              (3)  violates any rule adopted by the commissioner
   1-13  under this article.
   1-14        (b)  An offense under this section is punishable by a fine of
   1-15  not less than $200 and not more than $500 <a Class C misdemeanor>.
   1-16        (c)  A person commits a separate offense for each day the
   1-17  person acts in violation of this section.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.  The
   1-19  changes in law made by this Act apply only to an offense committed
   1-20  on or after that date.  An offense committed before the effective
   1-21  date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense
   1-22  was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-23  purpose.  For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
   1-24  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
    2-1  occurred before that date.
    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.