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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 669

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Relating to: a liability exemption for motor vehicle sellers after sale.

Crime and criminals Damage personal injury Motor vehicle — Certificate of title Ordinance Sales

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, stopped here
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under this bill, a seller of a motor vehicle who holds legal title to the motor

vehicle and has transferred possession of the motor vehicle to a buyer is immune

from civil and criminal liability and is not responsible for local ordinance violations

committed involving the motor vehicle after the seller has signed the motor vehicle

title and given it to the buyer. The bill also applies the immunity to a circumstance

in which the buyer and seller intend for ownership of the motor vehicle to be

transferred to the buyer, even when certain formalities of the transfer of ownership

have not occurred. The immunity provided under the bill does not apply if death or

injury was caused by the seller's willful or wanton acts or omissions. The immunity

under the bill also does not apply to motor vehicle or wholesale dealers.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , Behnke (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Kitchens (R) , Magnafici (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Nedweski (R) , O'Connor (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Wichgers (R)

5 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Nass (R) , Rettinger (R) , Taylor (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Consumer Protection, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Jan 16, 2024 official source full page

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

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 16, 2024 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 11, 2024 official source full page

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

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 22–10 Mar 12, 2024 official source full page

Full history

  1. Nov 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Duchow, Armstrong, Behnke, Dittrich, Emerson, Kitchens, Magnafici, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Rodriguez and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Felzkowski, Ballweg, Nass and Taylor

  2. Nov 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Consumer Protection

  3. Jan 3, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Rettinger added as a coauthor

  4. Jan 3, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Emerson withdrawn as a coauthor

  5. Jan 4, 2024 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Jan 10, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Ortiz-Velez withdrawn as a coauthor

  7. Jan 11, 2024 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Jan 16, 2024 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Consumer Protection, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  9. Jan 16, 2024 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Jan 16, 2024 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-18-2024 by Committee on Rules

  11. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  12. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  13. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  14. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  15. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  16. Jan 18, 2024 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  17. Jan 19, 2024 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Transportation and Local Government

  18. Feb 15, 2024 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  19. Feb 16, 2024 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  20. Feb 16, 2024 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  21. Mar 11, 2024 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  22. Mar 11, 2024 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-12-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  23. Mar 12, 2024 · Senate

    Read a second time

  24. Mar 12, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  25. Mar 12, 2024 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  26. Mar 12, 2024 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 22, Noes 10

  27. Mar 12, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  28. Mar 12, 2024 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  29. Mar 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-15-2024

  30. Mar 26, 2024 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2024

  31. Mar 29, 2024 · Assembly

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 3-29-2024

  32. May 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 5-14-2024 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  33. May 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82