SSB 1192: Relating to motor vehicle glass repair, replacement, and insurance, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions

What it does

This bill relates to motor vehicle glass repair, replacement, and insurance. The bill regulates the post-loss assignment of benefits, calibration of advanced driver assistance systems, and motor vehicle glass repair claims and practices, prohibits certain related acts, provides a right for an insured person to choose a motor vehicle glass repair shop, establishes presumptions if repair shops engage in regular and consistent patterns of prohibited activity, and makes penalties applicable. The bill includes requirements for motor vehicle glass repair shops to notify insured persons about glass on vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems, including vehicle driving automation systems that perform part or all of the dynamic driving task on a sustained basis to enhance motor vehicle safety and reduce losses associated with motor vehicle crashes.

Senate subcommittee · named February 26, 2025

• Sen. Kara Warme (R) · kara.warme@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Kerry Gruenhagen (R) · kerry.gruenhagen@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Zach Wahls (D) · zach.wahls@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 5 for, 0 against

For: American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA); Iowa Automobile Dealers Association; National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC); National Insurance Crime Bureau; Safelite Group, Inc.

In plain words

1. February 26, 2025Filed in the Senate and sent to the Commerce committee
2. February 26, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Warme, Gruenhagen and Wahls
3. March 4, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. March 6, 2025Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 573