1-1     By:  Nixon                                             S.B. No. 924

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 1997; March 10, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     April 22, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 22, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 924                    By:  Nixon

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the operation of a motor home dealership by a motor

1-11     home manufacturer.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  (a)  Notwithstanding the provisions of

1-14     Subdivision (25), Subsection (b), Section 5.02, Texas Motor Vehicle

1-15     Commission Code (Article 4413(36), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),

1-16     a person who, on June 7, 1995, held both a motor home dealer's

1-17     license and a motor home manufacturer's license issued under the

1-18     provisions of the Texas Motor Vehicle Commission Code (Article

1-19     4413(36), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), may hold both a license

1-20     as a motor home dealer and a license as a motor home manufacturer

1-21     under the Texas Motor Vehicle Commission Code (Article 4413(36),

1-22     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).

1-23           (b)  Subsection (a) of this section does not authorize a

1-24     person to operate as a manufacturer and a dealer of any vehicle or

1-25     type of vehicle except a motor home, as that term is defined by the

1-26     Texas Motor Vehicle Commission Code (Article 4413(36), Vernon's

1-27     Texas Civil Statutes).

1-28           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.

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