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.