Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 14

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Relating to: repair and replacement of implements of husbandry under warranty.

Farm and farming — Machinery Motor vehicle — Dealers and finance companies

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates requirements, commonly known as a “lemon law,” for the repair

and replacement of an implement of husbandry that has a condition or defect

(nonconformity) that substantially impairs the use, value, or safety of the implement

of husbandry and that is covered by an express warranty.

Under the bill, if an implement of husbandry does not conform to an applicable

express warranty, and the consumer reports the nonconformity to the manufacturer,

the lessor, or any of the manufacturer's authorized dealers and makes the implement

of husbandry available for repair, the manufacturer, lessor, or authorized dealer

must repair the nonconformity. If the same nonconformity has been subject to repair

at least four times and the nonconformity continues, or if the implement of

husbandry is out of service for an aggregate of at least 30 days because of warranty

nonconformities, the consumer is entitled to a replacement implement of husbandry

or a full refund.

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Consumer Protection, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 May 31, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Consumer Protection, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 May 31, 2023 official source full page