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.