By: Lucio S.B. No. 499
(In the Senate - Filed February 11, 2013; February 13, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
March 4, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 4, 2013,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 499 By: Lucio
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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, filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A complaint
filed before 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.
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