By Davis of Dallas H.B. No. 2537
76R8419 DWS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 Commission shall cause manufacturers, converters,
1-10 and distributors to perform the obligations imposed by this
1-11 section. For purposes of this section, the term "owner" means a
1-12 retail purchaser, lessor, lessee other than a sublessee, or the
1-13 person so designated on the certificate of title to a motor vehicle
1-14 issued by the Texas Department of Transportation, [or an equivalent
1-15 document issued by the duly authorized agency of any other state,]
1-16 or any person to whom such motor vehicle is legally transferred
1-17 during the duration of a manufacturer's or distributor's express
1-18 warranty applicable to such motor vehicle, and any other person
1-19 entitled by the terms of the manufacturer's, converter's, or
1-20 distributor's express warranty to enforce the obligations thereof.
1-21 This section applies only to a motor vehicle:
1-22 (1) purchased or leased in this state by its current
1-23 owner; or
1-24 (2) that has a certificate of title under Chapter 501,
2-1 Transportation Code, and is registered under Chapter 502,
2-2 Transportation Code.
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.