By Burnam                                             H.B. No. 2375
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a contract for removal of a vehicle from a parking
 1-3     facility by a towing company.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 684.014(c), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  Only a towing company that is insured against liability
 1-8     for property damage incurred in towing a vehicle may remove and
 1-9     store an unauthorized vehicle under this section.  A towing company
1-10     may not remove an unauthorized vehicle from a parking facility
1-11     except under a written contract between the towing company and the
1-12     parking facility owner.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.