| 1 | 1 | | By: Lozano (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.B. No. 3422 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 2011; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 16, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | 4 | | Transportation and Homeland Security; May 21, 2011, reported |
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| 5 | 5 | | favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 21, 2011, sent |
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| 6 | 6 | | to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | |
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| 9 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 11 | | relating to the use of auction proceeds from the sale of abandoned |
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| 12 | 12 | | motor vehicles, watercraft, or outboard motors to compensate |
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| 13 | 13 | | certain property owners. |
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| 14 | 14 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 15 | 15 | | SECTION 1. Section 683.015(f), Transportation Code, is |
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| 16 | 16 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 17 | | (f) A [county] law enforcement agency may use funds |
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| 18 | 18 | | [received from the sale of a motor vehicle abandoned as a result of |
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| 19 | 19 | | a vehicular pursuit involving the law enforcement agency and] |
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| 20 | 20 | | transferred under Subsection (d) to compensate property owners |
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| 21 | 21 | | whose property was damaged as a result of a [the] pursuit involving |
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| 22 | 22 | | the law enforcement agency, regardless of whether the agency would |
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| 23 | 23 | | be liable under Chapter 101, Civil Practice and Remedies Code. [A |
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| 24 | 24 | | payment for compensation under this subsection may not exceed any |
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| 25 | 25 | | of the following amounts: |
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| 26 | 26 | | [(1) the net proceeds received from the sale of the |
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| 27 | 27 | | motor vehicle abandoned as a result of the pursuit; |
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| 28 | 28 | | [(2) $1,000 per property owner, if more than one |
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| 29 | 29 | | property owner's property is damaged as a result of the pursuit; or |
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| 30 | 30 | | [(3) the amount of the property owner's insurance |
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| 31 | 31 | | deductible.] |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 33 | 33 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 34 | 34 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 35 | 35 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 36 | 36 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 37 | 37 | | * * * * * |
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