109 HR 6093 IH: Damaged Vehicle Information U.S. House of Representatives 2006-09-19 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 109th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6093 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 19, 2006 Mr. Stearns (for himself, Mr. Bass, Mr. Campbell of California, and Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require the disclosure of information relating to the fair market value and safety of damaged motor vehicles.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Damaged Vehicle Information Act.

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Disclosure of Vehicle Damage Information

Section 32303 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (d)

Disclosure of Fair Market Value and Safety Information

(1)Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary of Transportation, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, shall issue a regulation requiring all persons who terminate a contract related to a motor vehicle due to flood or water damage, collision, fire damage, theft and recovery, or any other circumstance that adversely affects the fair market value of such motor vehicle, to disclose to the public in a commercially reasonable, electronically accessible manner the following information for every motor vehicle that has been identified in such contract: (A)The vehicle identification number of the motor vehicle. (B)The date of the termination of the contract. (C)The odometer reading of the motor vehicle on the date of the termination of the contract. (D)Whether, as a result of the incident that resulted in the termination of the contract, one or more airbags in the motor vehicle were deployed. (E)The cause of the termination of the contract, including whether such cause was flood or water damage, collision, fire damage, theft and recovery, or another cause. (2)The Secretary shall rely on the private sector to collect, aggregate, and disclose to the public the fair market value and safety information described in paragraph (1) and all such information shall be accessible by vehicle identification number. (3)For purposes of this subsection, the term person includes any individual, company, corporation, association, firm, partnership, society, or any other entity, but does not include any governmental agency. .