1-1 By: Cain S.B. No. 919
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1995; March 6, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 28, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 28, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Whitmire
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 919 as follows:
1-8 On page 1, line 9 (committee printing page 1, line 19), by
1-9 striking the word "lessors" and substituting the word "renters".
1-10 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-11 AN ACT
1-12 relating to reporting of stolen vehicles.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Section 31.04, Penal Code, is amended by adding
1-15 Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-16 (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any
1-17 police or other report of stolen vehicles by a political
1-18 subdivision of this state shall include on the report any rental
1-19 vehicles whose lessors have been shown to such reporting agency to
1-20 be in violation of Subsection (b)(2) and shall indicate that the
1-21 renting agency has complied with the notice requirements demanding
1-22 return as provided in this section.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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