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Current Bill Summary

HCS/SS/SCS/SB 398 – This act enacts provisions relating to motor vehicles.

COLLECTION OF SALES TAX BY MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS (Sections 144.020 and 144.070)

This act provides that following development of the Department of Revenue’s modernized system for vehicle titling and registration, driver licensing, and liens, licensed motor vehicle dealers shall collect and remit to the Department the sales tax due on all motor vehicles the dealer sells.

These provisions are identical to provisions in CCS/HCS/SB 47 (2023), provisions in HCS/HB 894 (2023), provisions in HCS/SS/SCS/SBs 56 & 61 (2023), provisions in SCS/HB 415 (2023), and provisions in HCS/SS/SB 23 (2023), and similar to provisions in SB 66 (2023), HB 1733 (2022), provisions in SS/SB 762 (2022), SB 967 (2022), SB 720 (2022), HB 1873 (2022), HB 2740 (2022), SB 273 (2021), HB 235 (2021), HB 668 (2021), HB 1598 (2020), HB 2740 (2022), HB 809 (2021), HB 599 (2021), and HB 667 (2021).

MOTOR VEHICLE FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (Sections 303.039, 303.041, 303.420, 303.422, 303.425, 303.430, and 303.440)

This act enacts provisions relating to motor vehicle financial responsibility.

This act establishes the “Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Verification and Enforcement Fund” to be used by the Department of Revenue for the administration of the act. (Section 303.422).