Bills › 91st General Assembly

SF 573Signed by Governor · May 6, 2025

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

Sponsored by the Senate Commerce Committee

Topics:InsuranceTransportation

Same legislation: SSB 1192

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 26, 2025
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 26, 2025
  3. Done: Senate committeeMarch 6, 2025
  4. Done: Passes the SenateMarch 19, 202547–0
  5. Done: House committeeApril 1, 2025
  6. Done: Passes the HouseApril 21, 202591–0
  7. Done: To the GovernorMay 6, 2025
  8. Done: Signed into lawMay 6, 2025

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What’s in it

AI summary This law gives people the right to choose which shop repairs their vehicle's glass after an insurance claim. It requires repair shops to tell customers if their vehicle needs special calibration for safety technology like automated driving systems. The bill also sets rules for how glass repair businesses operate and allows the state to fine or penalize shops that break these rules.1

Read the official explanation

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. By reference, the bill incorporates six levels of driving automation, ranging from no driving automation (level 0) to full driving automation (level 5), as described in the most recent version of the society of automotive engineers international levels of driving automation bulletin.7, and if the person has a license to operate the person’s business, the license is subject to suspension or revocation.

Changed since by amendment H-1255; see Amendments.

Full bill text · What changed before it passed2

House subcommittee

Named March 24, 2025. On March 27, 2025 it recommended passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

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Amends§507B.3

How the Code works3

Lobbying

5 for · 0 against · 8 undecided · Who →

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