By Bosse H.B. No. 2516 74R7882 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to payment of certain amounts due to the operator of a 1-3 vehicle storage facility. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Vehicle Storage Facility Act (Article 1-6 6687-9a, Revised Statutes) is amended by adding Section 14A to read 1-7 as follows: 1-8 Sec. 14A. PAYMENT BY LIENHOLDER OR INSURANCE COMPANY. A 1-9 lienholder who repossesses a vehicle, or an insurance company that 1-10 pays a claim of total loss involving an owner of a vehicle in a 1-11 vehicle storage facility, is liable to the operator of a vehicle 1-12 storage facility for all unpaid amounts owed the operator in 1-13 relation to the delivery of the vehicle to or the storage of the 1-14 vehicle in the vehicle storage facility regardless of whether an 1-15 amount accrued before the lienholder repossessed the vehicle or the 1-16 insurance company paid the claim. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an amount accruing on or 1-18 after the effective date of this Act. 1-19 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-20 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.