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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2021 - 2022
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | March 28, 2022 02:09 PM |
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| From: | Representative David H. Rowe |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Vehicle Recycling Titling Reform |
| In the near future, I intend to introduce legislation that will remove unnecessary steps in the re-titling process of vehicles sold between insurance companies and vehicle recycling companies. Currently, vehicles for which an insurance settlement has been paid and the insurance company has taken ownership of the vehicle, the vehicle must undergo the re-titling process several times before ultimately being disassembled for parts or destroyed for scrap. This includes when the vehicle is transferred from the customer to the insurer, the insurer to the salvage motor vehicle auction dealer, and the salvage motor vehicle auction dealer to the vehicle recycling company. An error in the process, which is not uncommon, further delays what is already a more cumbersome process than what vehicle recycling companies experience in other states. All of this red tape for a vehicle destined to be disassembled into parts and the remainder destroyed? My legislation will establish a streamlined process for transferring vehicles between automobile insurers and vehicle recycling companies. Further, this legislation would be limited only to vehicles for which an insurer has made a total loss payment to the vehicle’s titleholder. My legislation is pro-business, as it reduces excessive government requirements that do more to frustrate business than protect Pennsylvanians. Further, we constantly hear about how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to global “supply chain” delays and specifically how the delays have impacted the automobile industry, such as vehicle and parts shortages and a significant increase in price for available vehicles and parts. This change will lessen the impacts of the supply chain disruptions that are anticipated for the foreseeable future by streamlining the process to get salvage, total loss and nonrepairable vehicles, and their hazardous fluids, recycled in Pennsylvania. Please join me in co-sponsoring this important piece of legislation. |
Introduced as HB2572