By: Canales H.B. No. 3704
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relati
ng to a study on automobile theft
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) The Department of Public Safety shall
conduct a study on trans-national automobile theft while consulting
with the Federal Government, the Texas Auto Burglary and Theft
Prevention Authority and Auto Burglary and Theft Prevention
Authority funded tasks forces.
(b) The study shall address:
(1) current automobile theft rates in Texas including
data on stolen vehicles brought into Mexico;
(2) practices currently in place to prevent stolen
vehicles from exiting Texas into Mexico
(3) suggestions on how to further control automobile
theft between Texas and Mexico
(4) determine the feasibility of a no-cross database,
whereby vehicle owners can sign and acknowledge that they do not
want their vehicles to exit Texas into Mexico
(c) Not later than November, 2016, the Department of Public
Safety shall issue a report on the study required under this section
to the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
representatives, and the appropriate standing committees of the
house of representatives and the senate.
(d) This section expires September 1, 2017.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.