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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6093 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration to require the disclosure of information 
relating to the fair market value and safety of damaged motor vehicles. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 
Mr. STEARNS (for himself, Mr. BASS, Mr. CAMPBELL of California, and Mr. 
BRADY of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Na-
tional Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require 
the disclosure of information relating to the fair market 
value and safety of damaged motor vehicles. 
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 ‘‘Damaged Vehicle In-
formation Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF VEHICLE DAMAGE INFORMATION. 
Section 32303 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(d) DISCLOSURE OF FAIR MARKET VALUE AND 
SAFETY INFORMATION.—(1) Not later than 270 days 
after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Sec-
retary of Transportation, through the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration, shall issue a regulation re-
quiring all persons who terminate a contract related to a 
motor vehicle due to flood or water damage, collision, fire 
damage, theft and recovery, or any other circumstance 
that adversely affects the fair market value of such motor 
vehicle, to disclose to the public in a commercially reason-
able, electronically accessible manner the following infor-
mation for every motor vehicle that has been identified in 
such contract: 
‘‘(A) The vehicle identification number of the 
motor vehicle. 
‘‘(B) The date of the termination of the con-
tract. 
‘‘(C) The odometer reading of the motor vehicle 
on the date of the termination of the contract. 
‘‘(D) Whether, as a result of the incident that 
resulted in the termination of the contract, one or 
more airbags in the motor vehicle were deployed. 
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‘‘(E) The cause of the termination of the con-
tract, including whether such cause was flood or 
water damage, collision, fire damage, theft and re-
covery, or another cause. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary shall rely on the private sector 
to collect, aggregate, and disclose to the public the fair 
market value and safety information described in para-
graph (1) and all such information shall be accessible by 
vehicle identification number. 
‘‘(3) For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘per-
son’ includes any individual, company, corporation, asso-
ciation, firm, partnership, society, or any other entity, but 
does not include any governmental agency.’’. 
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