HBA-NRS H.B. 2313 77(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 2313
By: Bosse
Transportation
7/25/2001
Enrolled



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

The Vehicle Storage Facility Act provides for the regulation of proper
motor vehicle storage.  However, some feel that the Transportation Code
does not adequately address the disposal of abandoned nuisance motor
vehicles and does not provide communities and vehicle storage facilities
with the authority to dispose of such vehicles in an expeditious fashion.
House Bill 2313 establishes provisions for the disposal of nuisance motor
vehicles by vehicle storage facilities.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 2313 amends the Transportation Code to provide that a law
enforcement agency is not required to send notice to the last known
registered owner or lienholder of a motor vehicle if the law enforcement
agency has received notice from a vehicle storage facility that an
application has or will be submitted to the Texas Department of
Transportation or a law enforcement agency for the disposal of an abandoned
nuisance vehicle. If a law enforcement agency does not take an abandoned
vehicle left in a storage facility into custody before the 31st day after
the date notice of abandonment of a motor vehicle is sent, the bill
authorizes a vehicle storage facility to dispose of an abandoned vehicle in
accordance with the Vehicle Storage Facility Act if the vehicle is an
abandoned nuisance vehicle.   

EFFECTIVE DATE

Vetoed.