Bill Text: TX HB3288 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 3288

Bill Title: Relating to notice of transfer of a used motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3288 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3288-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 3288




	AN ACT
	relating to notice of transfer of a used motor vehicle.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Sections 501.147(b) and (c), Transportation
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(b) The notice of transfer shall be provided by the
	department and must include a place for the seller to state:
	(1) a complete description of the vehicle as
	prescribed by the department;
	(2) the full name, [~~and~~] address, and telephone number
	of the seller;
	(3) the full name, [~~and~~] address, and telephone number
	of the purchaser;
	(4) the date the seller delivered possession of the
	vehicle to the purchaser;
	(5) the signature of the seller; and
	(6) the date the seller signed the form.
	(c) This subsection applies only if the department receives
	notice under Subsection (a) that includes the full name, address,
	and telephone number of the purchaser before the 30th day after the
	date the seller delivered possession of the vehicle to the
	purchaser or in accordance with Section 152.069, Tax Code. After
	the date of the transfer of the vehicle shown on the records of the
	department, the purchaser of the vehicle shown on the records is
	rebuttably presumed to be:
	(1) the owner of the vehicle; and
	(2) subject to civil and criminal liability arising
	out of the use, operation, or abandonment of the vehicle, to the
	extent that ownership of the vehicle subjects the owner of the
	vehicle to criminal or civil liability under another provision of
	law.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to the transfer of a used motor vehicle that occurs on or after the
	effective date of this Act. The transfer of a used motor vehicle
	that occurs before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
	law in effect at the time of the transfer, and the former law is
	continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3288 was passed by the House on May 9,
	2023, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 16, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3288 was passed by the Senate on May
	19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor