By Talton                                             H.B. No. 1320

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the removal of a motor vehicle from a vehicle storage

 1-3     facility operated under the Vehicle Storage Facility Act.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 9, Vehicle Storage Facility Act (Article

 1-6     6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (e) to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           (e)  The holder of a license may not operate a vehicle

 1-9     storage facility that allows a person who owns a vehicle that has

1-10     been stored at the facility, or who is the representative of the

1-11     owner of the vehicle, to drive the vehicle off of the premises of

1-12     the facility unless the person furnishes the license holder, or an

1-13     employee of the license holder, evidence of financial

1-14     responsibility for the vehicle described by Section 601.053(a),

1-15     Transportation Code.

1-16           SECTION 2.  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.