Bill Text: TX SB499 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the determination of actual damages to enable compensation from the manufactured homeowners' recovery trust fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB499 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB499-Enrolled.html
 
 
  S.B. No. 499
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the determination of actual damages to enable
  compensation from the manufactured homeowners' recovery trust
  fund.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 1201.405, Occupations
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (e)  In determining the amount of actual damages under this
  section, the director shall make an independent inquiry as to the
  damages actually incurred, unless the damages have been previously
  established through a [by a] contested [jury] trial.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a complaint under Subsection (a), Section 1201.406, Occupations
  Code, that is pending on the effective date of this Act or is filed
  on or after the effective date of this Act.  A complaint that is
  filed before the effective date of this Act and is not pending on
  the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect on the
  date the complaint was filed, and that law is continued in effect
  for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 499 passed the Senate on
  March 13, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
  the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 22, 2013, by the
  following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 499 passed the House, with
  amendment, on May 17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 134,
  Nays 0, two present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor
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