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.
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             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