BILL ANALYSIS

Senate Research Center	H.B. 2310
86R13279 JAM-D	By: Vo; Thierry (Alvarado)
	Transportation
	4/28/2019
	Engrossed

AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

H.B. 2310 amends current law relating to the information necessary to appropriately title certain flood damaged vehicles that have been repaired with federal financial assistance.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 501.09112, Transportation Code, by adding Subsection (d-1), as follows:

(d-1) Requires the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) and the Texas Division of Emergency Management to coordinate with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to ensure that TxDMV has information, including a vehicle identification number, necessary to apply the notation under Subsection (d) (relating to requiring that a salvage vehicle title or a salvage record of title for a vehicle that is a salvage motor vehicle because of damage caused exclusively by flood to bear a notation that the department considers appropriate) to the title of a vehicle:

(1) to which that subsection applies; and

(2) that has been repaired or salvaged using financial assistance designated for that purpose and administered by FEMA.

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 2019. �