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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2687
To amend the anti-car theft provisions of title 49, United States Code to
increase the utility of motor vehicle title information to State and Federal
law enforcement officials, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 29, 1995
Mr. MCCOLLUM (for himself, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. COBLE, Mr. HEINEMAN, Mr.
BRYANT of Tennessee, and Ms. LOFGREN) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the anti-car theft provisions of title 49, United
States Code to increase the utility of motor vehicle title
information to State and Federal law enforcement offi-
cials, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anti-Car Theft Im-
provements Act of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
(a) MOTOR VEHICLE.—Section 30501(1) of title 49,
United States Code, is amended by inserting before the
period the following: ‘‘and ‘motor vehicle’ has the same
meaning as the term ‘passenger motor vehicle’ has in sec-
tion 32101(10)’’.
(b) OPERATOR.—Section 30501(6) of title 49, United
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘of this title, or the
Secretary of Transportation’’ and inserting ‘‘or the Na-
tional Stolen Passenger Motor Vehicle Information Sys-
tem under section 33109, or the Attorney General’’.
SEC. 3. SYSTEM NAME AND IMPLEMENTATION DATE.
(a) SECTION 30502.—Section 30502(a)(1) of title
49, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘January 31, 1996’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘October 1, 1997’’, and
(2) by striking ‘‘Automobile’’ each place it oc-
curs and inserting ‘‘Motor Vehicle’’.
(b) SECTION 30503.—Section 30503(d) of title 49,
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘January 1,
1997’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1, 1998’’.
SEC. 4. DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY.
(a) SECRETARY
OF
TRANSPORTATION.—Sections
30502, 30503, 30504, and 30505 of title 49, United
States Code, are each amended by striking each reference
to ‘‘Secretary of Transportation’’ or ‘‘Secretary’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Attorney General’’.
(b) ATTORNEY GENERAL.—Section 30502 of title 49,
United States Code, is amended by striking each reference
to ‘‘Attorney General’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Trans-
portation’’.
SEC. 5. TITLE INFORMATION SYSTEM OPERATOR IMMU-
NITY.
Section 30502 of title 49, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(f) IMMUNITY.—Any person performing any activity
under this section or sections 30503 or 30504 in good
faith and with the reasonable belief that such activity was
in accordance with this section or section 30503 or 30504,
as the case may be, shall be immune from any civil action
seeking money damages or equitable relief in any court
of the United States or a State.’’.
SEC. 6. STOLEN VEHICLE INFORMATION SYSTEM.
Section 33109 of title 49, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) IMMUNITY.—Any person performing any activity
under this section in good faith and with the reasonable
belief that such activity was in accordance with this sec-
tion shall be immune from any civil action seeking money
damages or equitable relief in any court of the United
States or a State.’’.
SEC. 7. GRANTS TO STATES.
(a) AMENDMENT.—Section 30503(c)(2) of title 49,
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(2) The Attorney General may make reasonable and
necessary grants to participating States to be used in
making titling information maintained by those States
available to the operator.’’.
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out
section 30503 of title 49, United States Code.
(c) INFORMATION SYSTEM.—The information system
established under section 30502 of title 49, United States
Code, shall be effective as provided in the rules promul-
gated by the Attorney General.
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