[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 18, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2992-S2993]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4034. Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself and Mr. Markey) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. 
Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill 
H.R. 2577, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, 
and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in division A, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __. (a) Section 30120 of title 49, United States Code, 
     is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(k) Limitation on Sale or Lease of Used Passenger Motor 
     Vehicles.--(1) A dealer may not sell or lease a used 
     passenger motor vehicle until any defect or noncompliance 
     determined under section 30118 with respect to the vehicle 
     has been remedied.
       ``(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply if--
       ``(A) the recall information regarding a used passenger 
     motor vehicle was not accessible at the time of sale or lease 
     using the means established by the Secretary under section 
     31301 of the Moving Ahead for

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     Progress in the 21st Century Act (49 U.S.C. 30166 note); or
       ``(B) notification of the defect or noncompliance is 
     required under section 30118(b), but enforcement of the order 
     is set aside in a civil action to which 30121(d) applies.
       ``(3) Notwithstanding section 30102(a)(1), in this 
     subsection--
       ``(A) the term `dealer' means a person that has sold at 
     least 10 motor vehicles to 1 or more consumers during the 
     most recent 12-month period; and
       ``(B) the term `used passenger motor vehicle' means a motor 
     vehicle that has previously been purchased other than for 
     resale.
       ``(4) By rule, the Secretary may exempt the auctioning of a 
     used passenger motor vehicle from the requirements under 
     paragraph (1) to the extent that the exemption does not harm 
     public safety.''.
       (b) This section shall take effect on that date that is 18 
     months after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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