Bill Text: TX HB2884 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of private passenger vehicle rental companies.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB2884 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2884-Comm_Sub.html
By: Lujan (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 2884 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2023; | ||
May 9, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
Commerce; May 23, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 23, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the regulation of private passenger vehicle rental | ||
companies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 91.001(6) and (7), Business & Commerce | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(6) "Rental agreement" means an agreement for 180 [ |
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days or less that states the terms governing the use of a private | ||
passenger vehicle rented by a rental company. | ||
(7) "Rental company" means a person in the business of | ||
renting private passenger vehicles to the public for 180 [ |
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or less. The term does not include a person who holds a license | ||
under Chapter 2301, Occupations Code, and whose primary business | ||
activity is not renting private passenger vehicles. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 91.001(6) and (7), Business & Commerce | ||
Code, as amended by this Act, apply only to a rental agreement | ||
entered into on or after the effective date of this Act. A rental | ||
agreement entered into before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the contract was entered | ||
into, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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