Bill Text: TX SB952 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 952 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to enforcement of a lien on property in a self-service storage facility by a sale conducted through an Internet website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB952 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB952-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Hancock	S.B. No. 952
	(In the Senate - Filed February 17, 2017; March 1, 2017,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
	April 3, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
	Nays 0; April 3, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to enforcement of a lien on property in a self-service
	storage facility by a sale conducted through an Internet website.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 59.044, Property Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
	(a-1) For the purposes of Subsection (a)(5), the place of a
	sale is:
	(1) the physical address of the location of the sale if
	the sale is conducted at the self-service storage facility or a
	reasonably near public place; or
	(2) the address of the Internet website if the sale is
	conducted through an Internet website.
	SECTION 2. Section 59.045, Property Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 59.045. CONDUCT OF SALE. (a) A sale under this
	subchapter must be a public sale:
	(1) conducted at the self-service storage facility or
	a reasonably near public place; or
	(2) conducted through an Internet website accessible
	to the public.
	(b) The lessor must conduct the sale according to the terms
	specified in the notice advertising the sale and sell the property
	to the highest bidder.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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