By Hudson                                             H.B. No. 1869
       74R6312 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the period of a motor vehicle warranty.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Texas Motor Vehicle Commission Code
    1-5  (Article 4413(36), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 6.08 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 6.08.  EXTENSION OF WARRANTY.  When work covered by an
    1-8  express motor vehicle warranty is performed:
    1-9              (1)  the term of the warranty is extended by an amount
   1-10  of time equal to the period beginning when the warranty took effect
   1-11  and ending on the date of the work; and
   1-12              (2)  the number of miles of usage to which the warranty
   1-13  applies is increased by the number of miles shown on the motor
   1-14  vehicle's odometer when the work is performed.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a warranty taking effect
   1-16  on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.