By King of Uvalde                                     H.B. No. 2409
         76R7123 DRH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirements for a certificate of title to a motor
 1-3     vehicle.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 501.021(a), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as 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 make of the motor vehicle;
1-13                 (3)  the body type of the vehicle;
1-14                 (4)  the manufacturer's permanent vehicle
1-15     identification number of the vehicle or the vehicle's motor number
1-16     if the vehicle was manufactured before the date that stamping a
1-17     permanent identification number on a motor vehicle was universally
1-18     adopted;
1-19                 (5)  the serial number for the vehicle;
1-20                 (6)  the number on the vehicle's current Texas license
1-21     plates, if any;
1-22                 (7)  a statement:
1-23                       (A)  that no lien on the vehicle is recorded; or
1-24                       (B)  of the name and address of each lienholder
 2-1     and the date of each lien on the vehicle, listed in the
 2-2     chronological order in which the lien was recorded;
 2-3                 (8)  a space for the signature of the owner of the
 2-4     vehicle;
 2-5                 (9)  a statement indicating rights of survivorship
 2-6     under Section 501.031;
 2-7                 (10)  if the vehicle has an odometer, the odometer
 2-8     reading indicated by the application for the certificate of title;
 2-9     and
2-10                 (11)  any other information required by the department.
2-11           SECTION 2.  Section 501.051, Transportation Code, is amended
2-12     to read as follows:
2-13           Sec. 501.051.  GROUNDS FOR REFUSAL TO ISSUE OR FOR REVOCATION
2-14     OR SUSPENSION OF CERTIFICATE.  (a)  The department shall refuse to
2-15     issue a certificate of title or shall suspend or revoke a
2-16     certificate of title if:
2-17                 (1)  the application for the certificate contains a
2-18     false or fraudulent statement;
2-19                 (2)  the applicant failed to furnish required
2-20     information requested by the department;
2-21                 (3)  the applicant is not entitled to a certificate of
2-22     title;
2-23                 (4)  the department has reason to believe that the
2-24     motor vehicle is stolen;
2-25                 (5)  the department has reason to believe that the
2-26     issuance of a certificate of title would defraud the owner or a
2-27     lienholder of the motor vehicle;
 3-1                 (6)  the registration for the motor vehicle is
 3-2     suspended or revoked; or
 3-3                 (7)  the required fee has not been paid.
 3-4           (b)  The department may not refuse to issue a certificate of
 3-5     title for a vehicle that is otherwise entitled to have a
 3-6     certificate of title but:
 3-7                 (1)  is not registered for a reason other than a reason
 3-8     provided by Subsection (a)(6); or
 3-9                 (2)  for which the applicant does not provide evidence
3-10     of financial responsibility that complies with Section 502.153.
3-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
3-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-17     passage, and it is so enacted.