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Committee adopts second substitute to require branded titles, NMVIS checks for out-of-state vehicles

Utah House Revenue and Taxation Committee · February 12, 2026
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Summary

Representative Tesher's second substitute to HB 228 was adopted and favorably recommended; the bill would require branded titles for vehicles with prior significant damage (flood, hail, fire, etc.) and require the DMV to check the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System for out-of-state titles.

Representative Tesher presented a second substitute to House Bill 228 to address title "washing" where vehicles damaged in other states receive clean titles when retitled in Utah. The substitute lists specific branded-title categories (flood, fire, hail, stolen/recovered, rebuilt/restored, gray-market)…

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