HB5596 Summary

• Reduces the required age threshold for essential parts recordkeeping from 6 model years to 3 model years of age or newer.

• Extends the deadline for recording disposition entries from the time of disposition to no later than the close of business on the seventh calendar day following disposition.

• Removes requirements for dealers and transporters to record signature of vehicle inspectors, purchase prices, and sale prices of vehicles.

• Eliminates the requirement for transporters to maintain a 3-year record of every vehicle transported, including identification numbers and delivery dates.

• Removes language allowing separate criminal counts for each vehicle or essential part with missing records; violations now charged as single offenses rather than multiple counts per item.