By Pickett                                            H.B. No. 3466
         76R5220 DWS-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to salvage vehicle dealers.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Sections 1.01(8) and (17), Article 6687-1a,
 1-5     Revised Statutes, are amended to read as follows:
 1-6                 (8)  "Motor vehicle" has the meaning assigned by
 1-7     Section 501.002, Transportation Code [the Uniform Act Regulating
 1-8     Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
 1-9     Statutes)].
1-10                 (17)  "Salvage vehicle dealer" means a person who is
1-11     engaged in this state in the business of acquiring, selling, or
1-12     otherwise dealing in salvage vehicles or salvage vehicle parts [of
1-13     a type required to be covered by a salvage vehicle certificate of
1-14     title or nonrepairable vehicle certificate of title under a license
1-15     issued by the department that allows the holder of the license to
1-16     acquire, sell, dismantle, repair, or otherwise deal in salvage
1-17     vehicles].
1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 1(a)(8), Chapter 506, Acts of the 57th
1-19     Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 6687-2, Vernon's Texas
1-20     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-21                 (8)  "Motor vehicle" has the meaning assigned by
1-22     Section 501.002, Transportation Code [given by Subsection (b),
1-23     Section 2, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article
1-24     6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)].
 2-1           SECTION 3.  Section 1(e), Chapter 506, Acts of the 57th
 2-2     Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 6687-2, Vernon's Texas
 2-3     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
 2-4           (e)  In lieu of the requirements contained in Subsection (c)
 2-5     of this section, a salvage vehicle dealer may record the name of
 2-6     the business that the motor vehicle or motor vehicle part is
 2-7     purchased from and the Texas Certificate of Inventory number,
 2-8     salvage vehicle dealer number, or federal taxpayer identification
 2-9     number.
2-10           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.