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Committee lays over and advances multiple dealer and registration bills: courtesy vehicle plates, cross-border dealer registration access, temporary permits
Summary
Representative Olson presented multiple dealer-related bills addressing dealer courtesy vehicles, cross-border electronic vehicle title/registration access, and out-of-state temporary permits. The committee laid one bill over and sent two to Ways and Means; witnesses described operational effects and modest fiscal costs for system changes.
The House Transportation Committee on March 24 considered several bills from Representative Olson that address dealer plates, dealer operations and cross-border vehicle titling.
House File 2,337 (dealer courtesy vehicle plates): Olson described a proposal to permit a dealer27s dealer plate to be used on a courtesy vehicle for short-term customer use, capped at 72 hours. Amanda Duer of the Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association said the industry supports the proposal and told the committee the bill corrects an unintended consequence of a prior law requiring dealers to remove license plates within 48 hours of purchase. Duer said smaller dealers often lack separate courtesy fleets and the bill would ease service-day operations. The committee laid the bill over for further work and to allow the author and stakeholders to refine language.
House File 12 20 (cross-border EVTR access): Olson moved that House File 12 20 be sent to Ways and Means. The bill would allow licensed motor-vehicle dealers in adjacent states to access Minnesota27s electronic vehicle title-registration framework (EVTR) so Minnesota residents who buy vehicles in border communities can receive Minnesota plates and tabs at the point of sale rather than making additional trips. Duer said Wisconsin and Iowa already allow reciprocal access for Minnesota dealers; opponents raised no substantive objections. Department staff (Mr. Lee) noted a programming cost estimated at about $70,000 to update the DVS vehicle services system; the transcript records that the cost would be covered by the Department of Administration's special revenue/technology fee fund.
House File 12 19 (out-of-state temporary permits): Olson also moved House File 12 19 to Ways and Means. That bill would extend the current 31-day out-of-state temporary permit to 60 days to give other states' registration systems more time to finalize transfers after a purchase. Duer said the change would reduce situations in which dealers remain listed as owners because an out-of-state customer has not completed their home-state registration within 31 days; she noted parity with a recent change that extended in-state permits from 31 to 60 days.
The committee laid one dealer bill over for further drafting and approved motions to send the two registration-access and temporary-permit bills to Ways and Means for fiscal review.
