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This year's event will include seminars covering the recently passed recall legislation, national security, technology implementation and the connected car.
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The Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act was signed into law on Dec. 4 as part of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (H.R. 22).
Read More →The American Car Rental Association (ACRA) commended the House and Senate conferees for including The Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act in the federal highway bill conference report filed yesterday.
Read More →The American Car Rental Association (ACRA) opposes the amendment that exempts car dealers from grounding recalled vehicles in their rental fleets.
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The Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee did not approve Section 4209, an amendment for rental recalls in the S. 1732 bill: Comprehensive Transportation and Consumer Protection Act of 2015.
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A transportation bill introduced by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, would allow car rental companies to rent recalled vehicles that haven’t been repaired.
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On May 1, the Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives by a bipartisan group of legislators.This legislation is backed by ACRA, Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety (CARS) and several other auto safety groups.
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The Obama administration's transportation bill, delivered to the U.S. Congress March 30, would triple funding for the federal safety agency's auto defect investigation office.
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The Curb Auto Rental Taxes (CART) Coalition, a group of national organizations dedicated to protecting consumers from discriminatory car rental excise taxes, has announced that U.S. Representatives Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) have reintroduced HR 1528, the End Discriminatory State Taxes for Automobile Renters Act (EDSTAR).
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At a press conference last week, the American Car Rental Association (ACRA) joined U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator Mark Rosekind in support of passing legislation that would require rental car agencies to fix safety defects before renting vehicles subject to a recall.
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