Bill Text: TX HB1975 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to enforcement of a lien on property in a self-service storage facility by a sale conducted through an Internet website.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-22 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB1975 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1975-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Villalba (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) | H.B. No. 1975 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2017; | ||
| May 15, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
| Commerce; May 21, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 21, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to enforcement of a lien on property in a self-service | ||
| storage facility by a sale conducted through an Internet website. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 59.044, Property Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) For the purposes of Subsection (a)(5), the place of a | ||
| sale is: | ||
| (1) the physical address of the location of the sale if | ||
| the sale is conducted at the self-service storage facility or a | ||
| reasonably near public place; or | ||
| (2) the address of the Internet website if the sale is | ||
| conducted through an Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 59.045, Property Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 59.045. CONDUCT OF SALE. (a) A sale under this | ||
| subchapter must be a public sale: | ||
| (1) conducted at the self-service storage facility or | ||
| a reasonably near public place; or | ||
| (2) conducted through an Internet website accessible | ||
| to the public. | ||
| (b) The lessor must conduct the sale according to the terms | ||
| specified in the notice advertising the sale and sell the property | ||
| to the highest bidder. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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