1-1     By:  Swinford (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)               H.B. No. 1066
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 1999;
 1-3     April 9, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Economic Development; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to dealers of certain farm and industrial equipment.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 19.01, Business & Commerce Code, is
1-11     amended by amending Subdivision (8) to read as follows:
1-12                 (8)  "Equipment" means farm tractors, farm implements,
1-13     utility tractors, industrial tractors, forklifts, material-handling
1-14     equipment, forestry harvesting equipment, and outdoor power
1-15     equipment and the attachments to or repair parts for those items.
1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 19.22, Business & Commerce Code, is
1-17     amended to read as follows:
1-18           Sec. 19.22.  COERCED ORDERS, [OR] DELIVERIES, OR REFUSALS TO
1-19     PURCHASE.  (a)  A supplier may not coerce or compel a dealer to
1-20     order or accept delivery of equipment with special features or
1-21     accessories not included in the base list price of the equipment as
1-22     publicly advertised by the supplier unless the special features or
1-23     accessories are safety features or accessories required by the
1-24     supplier or by applicable law.
1-25           (b)  A supplier may not coerce or compel a dealer to refuse
1-26     purchase of equipment manufactured by another equipment
1-27     manufacturer.
1-28           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-29           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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