By Uher                                               H.B. No. 1619
       74R6219 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement that the holder of a discharged lien on
    1-3  a motor vehicle execute the discharge of the lien.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 47, Certificate of Title Act (Article
    1-6  6687-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        Sec. 47.  When a lien is discharged, the holder thereof
    1-9  shall<, on demand of the owner,> execute the discharge of the lien
   1-10  upon such form as may be prescribed by the Department, and upon
   1-11  presentation of such evidence, the owner may present the
   1-12  certificate of title to the designated agent in the county together
   1-13  with application for title as prescribed in this Act and shall
   1-14  receive from the Department a new title.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.