By Bailey H.B. No. 1629 76R5306 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to providing notice of warranties applicable to a motor 1-3 vehicle to a purchaser. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Texas Motor Vehicle Commission Code 1-6 (Article 4413(36), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-7 adding Section 5.06 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 5.06. NOTICE OF APPLICABLE WARRANTIES. (a) In this 1-9 section: 1-10 (1) "First-stage manufacturer" means the manufacturer 1-11 of the engine, chassis, and drive train of a motor vehicle. 1-12 (2) "Second-stage manufacturer" means the installer of 1-13 the structure and equipment permanently on the engine, chassis, and 1-14 drive train of a motor vehicle, making the motor vehicle complete 1-15 and ready for delivery to a dealer or buyer. 1-16 (b) A dealer may not sell a motor vehicle unless the dealer: 1-17 (1) provides the purchaser with a list, signed by the 1-18 dealer, of each express warranty applicable to the motor vehicle or 1-19 a part of the motor vehicle of which the dealer has notice and that 1-20 was issued by a first-stage manufacturer, a second-stage 1-21 manufacturer, or the dealer; 1-22 (2) provides the purchaser with a copy of each 1-23 warranty described by Subdivision (1); and 1-24 (3) retains a copy of the list provided under 2-1 Subdivision (1) that is signed by the purchaser as acknowledgment 2-2 of the purchaser's receipt of the list. 2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.