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.