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Committee advances amended parking bill adding state minimums for vehicle booting and clarifying garage rules
Summary
House Bill 972 was amended in committee to clarify parking-garage language and to add a new amendment setting minimum state standards for vehicle booting, including a bond requirement and a $75 maximum boot removal fee; the committee approved the bill 27-0 and sent it to Calendar and Rules.
Representative McCown sponsored House Bill 972; the Finance, Ways, and Means Committee adopted multiple amendments and then voted to advance the bill.
The first adopted amendment (drafting code 007225) clarified local cost and fiscal-note language. A subsequent amendment (006813) corrected wording related to parking garages to align with previously passed legislation. A third amendment (drafting code 8016), offered by Chairman Williams, "simply allows for a minimum state standard as it relates to booting," he said. Chairman Williams described the booting amendment: "It requires a bond for Leisinger and the ability to, enforce that statute. It also sets a minimum, a maximum fee fee of $75 for, booting a vehicle. The booting of the vehicle has to be done by an electronic means." He said the intent was to give a local option for immobilizing vehicles and to avoid forcing consumers to retrieve towed cars many miles away.
Representative Vaughn asked whether the $75 fee should include an escalator tied to CPI. Chairman Williams said he was open to a CPI adjustment and that the number chosen was a starting point for floor debate.
The committee agreed to the amendments and, after discussion, the clerk reported a committee vote of 27 ayes, 0 nos. House Bill 972, as amended, "moves on to calendar and rules." No mover or seconder names were recorded on the audio transcript provided.
The transcript records the policy details described above; it does not record a final statutory text or specify which existing code sections the amendments amend. Committee members said the parking-garage language corrects an oversight from a prior year to line up with previously passed language.
