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	Amend HB 588 (second reading engrossment) on third reading by 
striking SECTION 2 and substituting:
	SECTION 2.  Subchapter I, Chapter 601, Transportation Code, 
is amended by adding Section 601.2611 to read as follows:
	Sec. 601.2611.  RELEASE OF VEHICLE ON PROOF OF FINANCIAL 
RESPONSIBILITY IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.  (a) This section applies 
only to a municipality that has a population of more than one 
million and is located in the metropolitan area served by a rapid 
transit authority eligible to create an advanced transportation 
district under Subchapter O, Chapter 451.
	(b)  Notwithstanding any other law, the owner or operator of 
a storage facility shall release a vehicle impounded at the 
facility because the vehicle had been operated by a person without 
evidence of financial responsibility and waive the impound and 
storage fees if the owner of the vehicle provides to the owner or 
operator of the facility not later than 48 hours after the vehicle 
was impounded evidence of financial responsibility for the vehicle 
that was in effect on the date the impoundment began. The 
municipality that authorized the impoundment shall pay any 
impoundment or storage fee waived under this section.