By Hawley H.B. No. 1714 76R5954 JD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to motor vehicle certificates of title. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 501.021, Transportation Code, is amended 1-5 by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 (a) A motor vehicle certificate of title is an instrument 1-8 issued by the department that includes: 1-9 (1) the name and address of the purchaser and seller 1-10 at the first sale or the transferee and transferor at a subsequent 1-11 sale; 1-12 (2) the year model, make, and trade name of the motor 1-13 vehicle; 1-14 (3) the style, color, and body type of the vehicle; 1-15 (4) the manufacturer's permanent vehicle 1-16 identification number of the vehicle or the vehicle's motor number 1-17 if the vehicle was manufactured before the date that stamping a 1-18 permanent identification number on a motor vehicle was universally 1-19 adopted; 1-20 (5) the serial number for the vehicle; 1-21 (6) the number on the vehicle's current Texas license 1-22 plates; 1-23 (7) a statement: 1-24 (A) that no lien on the vehicle is recorded; or 2-1 (B) of the name and address of each lienholder 2-2 and the date of each lien on the vehicle, listed in the 2-3 chronological order in which the lien was recorded; 2-4 (8) a space for the signature of the owner of the 2-5 vehicle; 2-6 (9) a statement indicating rights of survivorship 2-7 under Section 501.031; 2-8 (10) if the vehicle has an odometer, the odometer 2-9 reading indicated by the application for the certificate of title; 2-10 and 2-11 (11) any other information required by the department. 2-12 (c) The department may not refuse to disclose information 2-13 contained in the department's motor vehicle certificate of title 2-14 records that is requested by a peace officer, as defined by 2-15 Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, acting in an official 2-16 capacity. 2-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. The 2-18 change in law made by this Act to the information required to be 2-19 included on a motor vehicle certificate of title issued by the 2-20 Texas Department of Transportation applies only to a certificate of 2-21 title issued by the department on or after January 1, 2000. 2-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.