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. |