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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 629

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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, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  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: Ballweg (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Nass (R) , Taylor (D)

13 cosponsors

Armstrong (R) , Behnke (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Kitchens (R) , Magnafici (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Rettinger (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Wichgers (R)

Full history

  1. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

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

  2. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

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

  3. Jan 3, 2024 · Senate

    Representative Rettinger added as a cosponsor

  4. Jan 4, 2024 · Senate

    Representative Emerson withdrawn as a cosponsor

  5. Jan 17, 2024 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  6. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1