BILL · 2001–02 SESSION
HB 1620: Tow truck operators
Allowing tow truck operators to refuse payment by personal check.
Summary
- $ Impounded vehicles or property can only be redeemed by paying cash or by using a major bank credit card.
- $ Personal checks cannot be used to redeem impounded vehicles or property.
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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 31, 2001
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Jerome Delvin (R-8)
- Introduced
- January 31, 2001 in the House
- Last action
- January 14, 2002
AN ACT Relating to removing the requirement that tow truck operators accept personal checks for the redemption of vehicles;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Jerome Delvin (R-8)
11 co-sponsors (5 Democrats, 6 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- First reading, referred to Transportation.
HB 1620 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- HB 1620 (2025–26) Parenting plan limitations
- HB 1620 (2023–24) Incorporation/population
- HB 1620 (2021–22) Extreme weather events
- HB 1620 (2019–20) State estate tax, repealing
- HB 1620 (2017–18) Background checks/local gov.
- HB 1620 (2015–16) Biotoxin testing, monitoring
- HB 1620 (2013–14) Railroad employees/vehicles
- HB 1620 (2011–12) State facility residents