HBA-NMO, RAR C.S.H.B. 381 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisC.S.H.B. 381 By: Flores, K. Business & Industry 3/22/99 Committee Report (Substituted) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Current law restricts the execution of a survivorship agreement on a title document for a motor vehicle or manufactured home to a husband and wife. By allowing only a husband and wife to pass on the title of a motor vehicle or manufactured home to each other, problems may arise, for example, in the passing of a motor vehicle or a manufactured home from a widow to the widow's child. C.S.H.B. 381 provides that a survivorship agreement on a title document for a motor vehicle or manufactured home be signed by two or more persons, rather than a husband and wife. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 501.031, Transportation Code, to provide that a survivorship agreement on a motor vehicle certificate of title be signed by two or more persons, rather than by a husband and wife. Makes conforming changes. SECTION 2. Amends Section 19(a)(2), Article 5221f, V.T.C.S. (Texas Manufactured Housing Standards Act), to provide that a survivorship agreement on a manufactured home title document be signed by two or more persons, rather than a husband and wife. Makes conforming changes. SECTION 3. Amends Section 19(h), Article 5221f, V.T.C.S. (Texas Manufactured Housing Standards Act), to make conforming changes. SECTION 4. Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 5. Emergency clause. COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE The substitute differs from the original, by providing that the survivorship agreement on a title document for a motor vehicle or a manufactured home be signed by two or more people, rather than two people, as originally proposed.