Bill Text: TX HB668 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 668 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to procedures regarding the removal and storage of vehicles.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-21 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB668 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB668-Introduced.html

	82R4176 SLB-D

	By: Brown	H.B. No. 668



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to procedures regarding the removal and storage of
	vehicles.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 2303.154(a), Occupations Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a) If a vehicle is not claimed by a person permitted to
	claim the vehicle [~~or is not taken into custody by a law enforcement~~
	~~agency under Chapter 683, Transportation Code,~~] before the 10th
	[~~41st~~] day after the date notice is mailed or published under
	Section 2303.151 or 2303.152, the operator of the vehicle storage
	facility shall consider the vehicle to be abandoned and:
	(1) send a second notice to the registered owner and
	the primary lienholder of the vehicle; and
	(2) send a report of abandonment to a law enforcement
	agency under Chapter 683, Transportation Code.
	SECTION 2. Section 2303.154(a-1), Occupations Code, is
	repealed.
	SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
	2303.154, Occupations Code, apply only to a vehicle received in
	storage on or after the effective date of this Act. A vehicle
	received in storage before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect on the date the vehicle was received
	by the facility, and the former law is continued in effect for that
	purpose.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.