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Sharon Faulkner, executive director of the American Car Rental Association, met with Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) to continue the fight against rental car excise taxes and rental recall legislation.
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Reps. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) and Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) offered the HR 2543 bill — known as the End Discriminatory State Taxes on Automobile Renters Act (EDSTAR) — as an amendment during a House Judiciary Committee on June 18.
Read More →Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wrote a letter to the CEOs of the major auto manufacturers to encourage them to support the Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Act, a bill that would end the practice of renting recalled cars to consumers.
Read More →With a vote of 4 to 1, House Bill 1187 in Colorado has been killed by the Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs.
Read More →During the American Car Rental Association panel at CRS, Nevada Sens. Mark Hutchinson and Michael Roberson will provide an insider’s look into the legislative process and how effective lobbying can enact change.
Read More →We need to self-regulate the damage claims process before legislators do it for us.
Read More →The Canton Council in Canton, Ga., has voted against Mayor Gene Hobgood’s proposed 3% excise tax on rental cars for the second time. Hobgood says the tax would help raise money for city-sponsored agencies.
Read More →Bill seeks to restrict damage recovery won in Koenig v. PurCo case.
Read More →The Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act (S. 921), which was reintroduced in the Senate in May, was passed by the Senate Commerce Committee yesterday.
Read More →Reader has heard about the Koenig case in Colorado that created a favorable "precedent" for loss of use and administrative fees in the car rental industry. But how does this benefit him if he lives in Washington State?
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