Bill Text: TX SB72 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of private passenger vehicle rental companies.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2025-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB72 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB72-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 72 | ||
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| relating to the regulation of private passenger vehicle rental | ||
| companies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 91.001(6) and (7), Business & Commerce | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (6) "Rental agreement" means an agreement for 180 [ |
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| days or less that states the terms governing the use of a private | ||
| passenger vehicle rented by a rental company. | ||
| (7) "Rental company" means a person in the business of | ||
| renting private passenger vehicles to the public for 180 [ |
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| or less. The term does not include a person who holds a license | ||
| under Chapter 2301, Occupations Code, and whose primary business | ||
| activity is not renting private passenger vehicles. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 91, Business & Commerce | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 91.057 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 91.057. REFUND OF DAMAGE WAIVER CHARGE. A rental | ||
| company shall issue to a renter a refund of any damage waiver | ||
| charges charged or collected for a period that exceeds the number of | ||
| calendar days a damage waiver is in effect if: | ||
| (1) the renter returns a rented motor vehicle before | ||
| the anticipated return date; or | ||
| (2) the damage waiver is not in effect for the entire | ||
| period of the rental agreement because the renter cancels the | ||
| damage waiver before the anticipated return date, and the rental | ||
| company confirms that the rented motor vehicle was not damaged | ||
| before the damage waiver's cancellation. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a rental agreement entered into on or after the effective date of | ||
| this Act. A rental agreement 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 72 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 6, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 12, 2025, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 72 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 6, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, | ||
| one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
