By:  Yarbrough                                        H.B. No. 1070
       73R3288 DWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the applicability of the Vehicle Storage Facility Act.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 3, Vehicle Storage Facility Act (Article
    1-5  6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 3.  EXCEPTION.  This article does not apply to:
    1-7              (1)  a vehicle parked or stored at a vehicle storage
    1-8  facility with the consent of the vehicle's owner;
    1-9              (2)  <.  This article does not apply to> a vehicle
   1-10  storage facility operated by a person licensed pursuant to the
   1-11  Texas Motor Vehicle Commission Code; or
   1-12              (3)  any part of a vehicle storage facility located
   1-13  within the municipal limits of a municipality with a population of
   1-14  1,500,000 or more, according to the most recent federal census.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.