Acquisition of a motor vehicle by scrap metal dealers and motor vehicle salvage dealers

What it does

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill requires scrap metal processors and dealers who acquire a motor vehicle for scrap or salvage to comply with the same requirements as motor vehicle salvage dealers, and changes certain requirements that apply before a motor vehicle salvage dealer may acquire a motor vehicle in which another person holds a security interest.

This bill changes the definition of a “motor vehicle salvage dealer" to include a scrap metal processor or scrap metal dealer who acquires a motor vehicle for scrap or salvage. Under current law, a motor vehicle salvage dealer must be licensed by the Department of Transportation and comply with certain requirements. Under current law, a “scrap metal processor" is a person who processes or scraps motor vehicles but does not sell motor vehicles or vehicle parts and whose business is limited to a fixed location where scrap metal is processed into prepared grades for sale for remelting. A “scrap metal dealer" is a person engaged in the business of buying or selling scrap metal. The bill also eliminates certain requirements under current law that apply to scrap metal dealers who acquire a motor vehicle, relating to the acquisition of a motor vehicle whose certificate of title identifies a holder of a security interest, that are the same as requirements that apply to motor vehicle salvage dealers under current law.

Who's behind it

3 senators are its authors⁠. All 3 are Republicans.

3 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.