By Talton H.B. No. 1042 76R2909 JD-D 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.