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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1157

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Murray, Hankins, Lovick, Fisher and Keiser)

Read first time .  Referred to Committee on .

Directing a study on rebuilt vehicles.

    AN ACT Relating to identifying rebuilt vehicles; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  (1) The department shall conduct a study to determine the feasibility and impact of the following:

    (a) Extending the current definition of a salvage vehicle to apply to vehicles having a model year designation of a calender year that is at least twenty-five years before the calender year in which the vehicle was wrecked, destroyed, or damaged;

    (b) Disclosing on a vehicle's certificate of ownership and certificate of license registration that the vehicle was rebuilt after becoming a salvage vehicle.

    (2) In conducting the study, the department shall work cooperatively with industry stakeholders who, at a minimum, must include representatives from the vehicle wrecking industry, the salvage auction industry, the insurance industry, used car dealers, and the auto body repair industry.  The department must submit a report to the transportation committees of the house and senate by December 1, 2001, which must include recommendations on the required age a vehicle should be to be included in the definition of a salvage vehicle.

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