By Hudson                                             H.B. No. 2272
       74R6314 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to disclosure by a used car dealer of the consideration
    1-3  the dealer paid for a used car; providing a penalty.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 17, Business & Commerce Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Subchapter I to read as follows:
    1-7              SUBCHAPTER I.  SALE OF USED MOTOR VEHICLES
    1-8        Sec. 17.901.  DISCLOSURE OF TITLE INFORMATION.  (a)  In this
    1-9  section:
   1-10              (1)  "Passenger car" has the meaning assigned by
   1-11  Section 2(j), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article
   1-12  6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-13              (2)  "Used car dealer" means a person, corporation, or
   1-14  association in the business of selling used passenger cars.
   1-15        (b)  Before a used car dealer sells a used passenger car, the
   1-16  used car dealer shall provide the buyer a written notice disclosing
   1-17  the consideration paid by the used car dealer to obtain the used
   1-18  passenger car.
   1-19        (c)  A used car dealer commits an offense if the used car
   1-20  dealer does not provide a notice as required by this section or
   1-21  provides a notice containing false or misleading information.  An
   1-22  offense under this subsection is a Class C misdemeanor.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-24  applies only to a sale of a used passenger car occurring on or
    2-1  after that date.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.