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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2743 
To restore the economic rights of automobile dealers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 8, 2009 
Mr. MAFFEI (for himself, Mr. KRATOVIL, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. HOYER, Mr. 
MCMAHON, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. BARTLETT, Mr. HALL of New York, Mr. 
POSEY, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr. PAULSEN, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. MAN-
ZULLO, Mr. DEFAZIO, and Mr. DAVIS of Alabama) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To restore the economic rights of automobile dealers, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Automobile Dealer 
Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Automobile dealers are an asset to auto-
mobile manufacturers that make it possible to serve 
communities and sell automobiles nationally. 
(2) Forcing the closure of automobile dealers 
would have an especially devastating economic im-
pact in rural communities, where dealers play an in-
tegral role in the community, provide essential serv-
ices and serve as a critical economic engine. 
(3) The manufacturers obtain the benefits from 
having a national dealer network at no material cost 
to the manufacturers. 
(4) Historically, automobile dealers have had 
franchise agreement protections under State law. 
SEC. 3. RESTORATION OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS. 
(a) In order to protect assets of the Federal Govern-
ment and better assure the viability of automobile manu-
facturers in which the Federal Government has an owner-
ship interest, or to which it is a lender, an automobile 
manufacturer in which the Federal Government has an 
ownership interest, or which receives loans from the Fed-
eral Government, may not deprive an automobile dealer 
of its economic rights and shall honor those rights as they 
existed, for Chrysler LLC dealers, prior to the commence-
ment of the bankruptcy case by Chrysler LLC on April 
30, 2009, and for General Motors Corp. dealers, prior to 
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the commencement of the bankruptcy case by General Mo-
tors Corp. on June 1, 2009, including the dealer’s rights 
to recourse under State law. 
(b) In order to preserve economic rights pursuant to 
subsection (a), at the request of an automobile dealer, an 
automobile manufacturer covered under this Act shall re-
store the franchise agreement between that automobile 
dealer and Chrysler LLC or General Motors Corp. that 
was in effect prior to the commencement of their respec-
tive bankruptcy cases and take assignment of such agree-
ments. 
(c) Except as set forth herein, nothing in this Act 
is intended to make null and void: 
(1) the court approved transfer of substantially 
all the assets of Chrysler LLC to New CarCo Acqui-
sition LLC; or 
(2) a transfer of substantially all the assets of 
General Motors Corp. that could be approved by a 
court after the date of introduction of this Act. 
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