To repeal an obsolete provision in title 49, United States Code, requiring motor vehicle insurance cost reporting.

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on July 10, 2012. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) prescribe regulations to require passenger motor vehicle dealers to distribute to prospective buyers information comparing insurance costs for different makes and models of passenger motor vehicles based on damage susceptibility and crashworthiness.

Declares any regulations promulgated pursuant to that requirement to have no force or effect.

Directs the Secretary, after providing for public comment, to study and report to Congress on the most useful data, format, and method for providing simple and understandable damage susceptibility information to consumers.

[112th Congress Public Law 252]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 112-252
112th Congress

                                 An Act


 
    To repeal an obsolete provision in title 49, United States Code, 
   requiring motor vehicle insurance cost reporting. <<NOTE: Jan. 10, 
                         2013 -  [H.R. 5859]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 49 USC 32302 note.>> REPEAL.

    Subsection (c) of section 32302 of title 49, United States Code, is 
repealed, and any regulations promulgated under such subsection shall 
have no force or effect.
SEC. 2. DETERMINATION REGARDING PROVISION OF DAMAGE SUSCEPTIBILITY 
                    INFORMATION TO CONSUMERS.

    (a) In General.-- <<NOTE: Study. Reports.>> Section 32302(b) of 
title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ``The Secretary, after providing an opportunity for public 
comment, shall study and report to Congress the most useful data, 
format, and method for providing simple and understandable damage 
susceptibility information to consumers.''.

    (b) <<NOTE: 49 USC 32302 note.>> Deadline.--The Secretary of 
Transportation shall carry out the last sentence of section 32302(b) of 
title 49, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), not later than 
the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

    Approved January 10, 2013.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 5859:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 112-591 (Comm. on Energy and Commerce).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 158 (2012):
            July 23, considered and passed House.
            Dec. 21, considered and passed Senate.

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