Bill Text: TX HB1140 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to fees for vehicles stored at vehicle storage facilities; authorizing fee increases and decreases; eliminating a fee; eliminating a minimum fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1140 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1140-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to fees for vehicles stored at vehicle storage facilities; authorizing fee increases and decreases; eliminating a fee; eliminating a minimum fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1140 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1140-Introduced.html
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By: King of Uvalde | H.B. No. 1140 |
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relating to the adjustment of fees for vehicles stored at vehicle | ||
storage facilities; authorizing fee increases. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2303.155, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (h) and (i) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) For the purposes of this section, "governmental vehicle | ||
storage facility" means a garage, parking lot, or other facility | ||
that is: | ||
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each year. | ||
(h) The commission shall biennially: | ||
(1) adjust fees under this section according to the | ||
percentage increase or decrease, if any, in the Consumer Price | ||
Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) most | ||
recently published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United | ||
States Department of Labor; | ||
(2) notify vehicle storage facilities licensed under | ||
this chapter of the adjustment; and | ||
(3) allow a reasonable period for implementation of | ||
the adjustment. | ||
(i) If a fee is decreased under Subsection (h), the operator | ||
of a vehicle storage facility or governmental vehicle storage | ||
facility shall begin charging the new fee amount on the effective | ||
date of the decrease. If a fee is increased, the operator may begin | ||
charging the new amount at any time on or after the effective date | ||
of the increase. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |