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Subcommittee raises accident-report damage threshold to $3,000 in amended bill
Summary
A bill to raise the vehicle-damage threshold for mandatory written crash reports to the Department of Motor Vehicles was amended in committee from $5,000 to $3,000 and reported unanimously, 5-0. Sponsor Delegate Maldonado said the increase aligns the reporting threshold with modern repair costs and could save law-enforcement personnel hours.
Delegate Maldonado presented a bill to increase the dollar threshold at which law enforcement is required to forward written motor-vehicle-crash reports to the Department of Motor Vehicles. The bill would replace the current $1,500 threshold with a higher amount; the sponsor described negotiations that produced a line amendment setting the…
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