HBA-NMO, RAR C.S.H.B. 381 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisC.S.H.B. 381
By: Flores, K.
Business & Industry
3/22/99
Committee Report (Substituted)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Current law restricts the execution of a survivorship agreement on a title
document for a motor vehicle or manufactured home to a husband and wife.
By allowing only a husband and wife to pass on the title of a motor vehicle
or manufactured home to each other, problems may arise, for example, in the
passing of a motor vehicle or a manufactured home from a widow to the
widow's child. C.S.H.B. 381 provides that a survivorship agreement on a
title document for a motor vehicle or manufactured home be signed by two or
more persons, rather than a husband and wife. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 501.031, Transportation Code, to provide that a
survivorship agreement on a motor vehicle certificate of title be signed by
two or more persons, rather than by a husband and wife.  Makes conforming
changes. 

SECTION 2.  Amends Section 19(a)(2), Article 5221f,  V.T.C.S. (Texas
Manufactured Housing Standards Act), to provide that a  survivorship
agreement on a manufactured home title document be signed by two or more
persons, rather than a husband and wife.  Makes conforming changes. 

SECTION 3.  Amends Section 19(h), Article 5221f, V.T.C.S. (Texas
Manufactured Housing Standards Act), to make conforming changes. 

SECTION 4.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 5.  Emergency clause.


COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE

The substitute differs from the original, by providing that the
survivorship agreement on a title document for a motor vehicle or a
manufactured home be signed by two or more people, rather than two people,
as originally proposed.