Bill Text: TX HB3963 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of parking rules or policies for a multiunit complex by a third-party parking enforcement vendor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB3963 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3963-Introduced.html
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| By: Morales of Maverick | H.B. No. 3963 | |
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| relating to the enforcement of parking rules or policies for a | ||
| multiunit complex by a third-party parking enforcement vendor. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 92, Property Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 92.0133 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 92.0133. THIRD-PARTY PARKING ENFORCEMENT PROHIBITED. | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Multiunit complex" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 92.151. | ||
| (2) "Third-party parking enforcement vendor": | ||
| (A) means a person who, for compensation: | ||
| (i) issues a purported citation demanding | ||
| payment of a fee by the operator of a vehicle parked in a parking | ||
| area for an alleged violation of the parking rules or policies | ||
| governing the parking area; and | ||
| (ii) enforces or attempts to enforce the | ||
| purported citation privately, including through referring an | ||
| alleged delinquency in paying the purported citation to a | ||
| collections agency for initiation of civil litigation; and | ||
| (B) does not include a booting company or towing | ||
| company operating in accordance with Chapter 2308, Occupations | ||
| Code, and applicable local regulations. | ||
| (b) A landlord may not contract with a third-party parking | ||
| enforcement vendor to enforce parking rules or policies in the | ||
| parking area of a multiunit complex. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 92.0133, Property Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies only to a contract entered into on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. A contract 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. | ||
