1-1     By:  Bosse (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)               H.B. No. 1025

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;

 1-3     April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; April 29, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 29, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to certain fees charged by vehicle storage facilities.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 2(7), Vehicle Storage Facility Act

1-11     (Article 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

1-12                 (7)  "Impoundment" ["Preservation"] means an action

1-13     taken by or at the direction of the owner or operator of a vehicle

1-14     storage facility that is necessary to preserve, protect, or service

1-15     a vehicle stored or parked at the facility.

1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 14(d), Vehicle Storage Facility Act

1-17     (Article 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

1-18           (d)  The operator of a vehicle storage facility may not

1-19     charge any additional fees that are similar to notification,

1-20     impoundment [preservation], or administrative fees.

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.

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