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BAR summarizes 2025 legislation and rulemaking; storage-fee regulation moves toward public comment
Summary
At the Bureau of Automotive Repair quarterly advisory group meeting, staff reviewed bills signed this year and several adopted and pending regulation packages. The bureau said statutes take effect Jan. 1, 2026, and staff signaled a forthcoming regulation on storage fees that will include posting and annual reporting requirements.
Holly Helsing, executive office staff at the Bureau of Automotive Repair, told the advisory group that the bureau is tracking recently enacted bills and multiple regulatory packages and expects new statutes to take effect on Jan. 1, 2026.
Helsing described three bills the bureau tracked as having been signed by the governor and filed with the Secretary of State and said, “Bills must have been signed or vetoed by the governor by October 12. And the statutes take effect on 01/01/2026.” She listed AB 987, which expands the list of presumptively unreasonable fees tied to vehicle storage and towing; SB 774, which extends a sunset related to withholding certain citation disclosures for remedial training through Jan. 1, 2028; and a technical cleanup updating cross references in the Business and…
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