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.