By Patterson                                     S.B. No. 945

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain fees charged by vehicle storage facilities.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 2(7), Vehicle Storage Facility Act

 1-5     (Article 6687-9a, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

 1-6                 (7)  "Impoundment" ["Preservation"] means an action

 1-7     taken by or at the direction of the owner or operator of a vehicle

 1-8     storage facility that is necessary to preserve, protect, or service

 1-9     a vehicle stored or parked at the facility.

1-10           SECTION 2.  Section 14(d), Vehicle Storage Facility Act

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

1-12           (d)  The operator of a vehicle storage facility may not

1-13     charge any additional fees that are similar to notification,

1-14     impoundment [preservation], or administrative fees.

1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.