Bill Text: TX HB1140 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.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-Comm_Sub.html
By: King of Uvalde (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 1140 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2019; | ||
April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Business & Commerce; May 20, 2019, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to fees for vehicles stored at vehicle storage facilities; | ||
authorizing fee increases and decreases; eliminating a fee; | ||
eliminating a minimum fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 2303.155(a) and (b), Occupations Code, | ||
are amended 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. | ||
(b) The operator of a vehicle storage facility or | ||
governmental vehicle storage facility may charge the owner of a | ||
vehicle stored or parked at the facility: | ||
(1) a notification fee set in a reasonable amount for | ||
providing notice under this subchapter, including notice under | ||
Section 2303.154(c); | ||
(2) an impoundment fee of $20, subject to Section | ||
2303.1552, for any action that: | ||
(A) is taken by or at the direction of the owner | ||
or operator of the facility; and | ||
(B) is necessary to preserve, protect, or service | ||
a vehicle stored or parked at the facility; | ||
(3) a daily storage fee, subject to Section 2303.1552, | ||
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each day or part of a day the vehicle is stored at the facility if | ||
the vehicle is not longer than 25 feet; or | ||
(B) $35 for each day or part of a day the vehicle | ||
is stored at the facility if the vehicle is longer than 25 feet; and | ||
(4) any fee that is required to be submitted to a law | ||
enforcement agency, the agency's authorized agent, or a | ||
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SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 2303, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 2303.1552 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2303.1552. BIENNIAL ADJUSTMENT OF CERTAIN FEES. (a) | ||
In this section, "consumer price index" means the Consumer Price | ||
Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) published by the Bureau of | ||
Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. | ||
(b) On January 1 of each even-numbered year, the impoundment | ||
fee under Section 2303.155(b)(2) and the storage fees under Section | ||
2303.155(b)(3) are increased or decreased by an amount equal to the | ||
amount of the applicable fee in effect on December 31 of the | ||
preceding year multiplied by the percentage increase or decrease in | ||
the consumer price index during the preceding state fiscal | ||
biennium. | ||
(c) Not later than November 1 of each odd-numbered year, the | ||
commission shall: | ||
(1) adjust the fees in accordance with Subsection (b); | ||
and | ||
(2) publish the adjusted fees on the department's | ||
Internet website. | ||
(d) If a fee is decreased under this section, the operator | ||
of a vehicle storage facility or governmental vehicle storage | ||
facility, as defined by Section 2303.155, shall begin charging the | ||
adjusted fee on the effective date of the decrease. If a fee is | ||
increased under this section, the operator may begin charging the | ||
adjusted fee at any time on or after the effective date of the | ||
increase. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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