Bill Text: TX SB2247 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to applications for title for certain salvage vehicles.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-25 - Referred to Transportation [SB2247 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB2247-Introduced.html

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89R5551 MZM-F
By: West S.B. No. 2247

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to applications for title for certain salvage vehicles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 501.100, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 501.100. APPLICATION FOR [REGULAR CERTIFICATE OF]
TITLE FOR SALVAGE VEHICLE.
SECTION 2. Sections 501.100(a) and (f), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The owner of a motor vehicle for which a nonrepairable
vehicle title was issued prior to September 1, 2003, [or] for which
a salvage vehicle title or salvage record of title has been issued,
or for which a comparable out-of-state ownership document for a
salvage motor vehicle has been issued, may apply for a title under
Section 501.023 after the motor vehicle has been repaired, rebuilt,
or reconstructed and, in addition to any other requirement of law,
only if the application:
(1) describes each major component part used to
repair, rebuild, or reconstruct the motor vehicle;
(2) states the name of each person from whom the parts
used in repairing, rebuilding, or reconstructing [assembling] the
vehicle were obtained; and
(3) shows the identification number required by
federal law to be affixed to or inscribed on the part.
(f) The department may not issue a [regular] title for a
motor vehicle based on a:
(1) nonrepairable vehicle title issued on or after
September 1, 2003, or comparable out-of-state ownership document or
record, or evidence of a notation described by Section
501.09113(a)(2) on an out-of-state ownership document or record in
the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System;
(2) receipt issued under Section 501.1003(b); or
(3) certificate of authority issued under Chapter 683.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.