1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to dealers of certain farm and industrial equipment.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 19.01, Business & Commerce Code, is
1-5 amended by amending Subdivision (8) to read as follows:
1-6 (8) "Equipment" means farm tractors, farm implements,
1-7 utility tractors, industrial tractors, forklifts, material-handling
1-8 equipment, forestry harvesting equipment, and outdoor power
1-9 equipment and the attachments to or repair parts for those items.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 19.22, Business & Commerce Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 19.22. COERCED ORDERS, [OR] DELIVERIES, OR REFUSALS TO
1-13 PURCHASE. (a) A supplier may not coerce or compel a dealer to
1-14 order or accept delivery of equipment with special features or
1-15 accessories not included in the base list price of the equipment as
1-16 publicly advertised by the supplier unless the special features or
1-17 accessories are safety features or accessories required by the
1-18 supplier or by applicable law.
1-19 (b) A supplier may not coerce or compel a dealer to refuse
1-20 purchase of equipment manufactured by another equipment
1-21 manufacturer.
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1066 was passed by the House on April
7, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1066 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor