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

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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

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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.
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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.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor