1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to warranty performance obligations applicable to certain
1-3 motor vehicles.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 6.07(a), Texas Motor Vehicle Commission
1-6 Code (Article 4413(36), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (a) In addition to the other powers and duties provided for
1-9 in this Act, the board [Commission] shall cause manufacturers,
1-10 converters, and distributors to perform the obligations imposed by
1-11 this section. In this section "owner" means a person who:
1-12 (1) purchased a vehicle at retail from a licensee and
1-13 is entitled to enforce the terms of a manufacturer's warranty with
1-14 respect to the vehicle;
1-15 (2) is a lessor or lessee, other than a sublessee, who
1-16 purchased or leased the vehicle from a licensee; or
1-17 (3) is the transferee or assignee of any of the
1-18 persons described in Subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection if
1-19 the transferee or assignee is a Texas resident and is entitled to
1-20 enforce the terms of a manufacturer's warranty. [For purposes of
1-21 this section, the term "owner" means a retail purchaser, lessor,
1-22 lessee other than a sublessee, or the person so designated on the
1-23 certificate of title to a motor vehicle issued by the Texas
1-24 Department of Transportation, or an equivalent document issued by
2-1 the duly authorized agency of any other state, or any person to
2-2 whom such motor vehicle is legally transferred during the duration
2-3 of a manufacturer's or distributor's express warranty applicable to
2-4 such motor vehicle, and any other person entitled by the terms of
2-5 the manufacturer's, converter's, or distributor's express warranty
2-6 to enforce the obligations thereof.]
2-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2537 was passed by the House on April
16, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2537 on May 26, 1999, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2537 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor