HB 2951 — Prohibits the act of registering a motor vehicle in another state with the intent to circumvent the titling and registration requirements of this state

SECOND REGULAR SESSION HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO.NOS.

29512951, 2958 & 2977 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTRODUCED6404H.02C BYJOSEPH REPRESENTATIVEENGLER, LEWIS.Chief Clerk AN ACT To repeal section 301.010, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof five new sections relating to motor vehicle registration, with penalty provisions.

6404H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk AN ACT To repeal section 301.010, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof four new sections relating to motor vehicle registration, with penalty provisions.

Section 301.010, RSMo, is repealed and fourfive new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 144.465, 301.010, 301.092, 301.093, and 301.094, to read as follows:

144.465.

1.

The dates from August 28, 2026, to December 1, 2026, shall be designated as an "amnesty period" for taxpayers in this state who did not pay state and local taxes as outlined in sections 301.092 to 301.094 and who titled and registered their motor vehicle, recreational vehicle or any other vehicle in another state and such vehicle, under sections 301.092 to 301.094, would have been required to have been titled and registered in the state of Missouri and who are delinquent in taxes and other liabilities to the department of revenue arising from the purchases of said vehicles.

Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, with respect to all associated late fees and penalties administered by the department of revenue, a taxpayer shall be granted full amnesty from the assessment or payment of all such late fees and penalties provided that the liabilities have arisen from a motor vehicle purchase completed before August 28, 2026, and the taxpayer completes and submits a written application for such amnesty to the department of revenue during the amnesty period.

The department of revenue shall be responsible for designing and publishing a written application for this amnesty program not less than thirty days before the beginning of this amnesty period.

2.

The department of revenue shall issue a certificate of title and registration eligibility to each eligible taxpayer who submits a completed application during the EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law.

Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 2 amnesty period.

The certificate shall verify that the taxpayer has been granted amnesty for all late fees and penalties described in subsection 1 of this section.

3.

Upon the granting of amnesty to an eligible taxpayer under the provisions of this section, the department of revenue shall facilitate the issuance of all related documentation and materials including, but not limited to, motor vehicle title and registration, valid license plates, and license plate tabs to such taxpayer.

The department of revenue shall develop a standardized procedure to ensure that all eligible taxpayers who receive a certificate of eligibility under subsection 2 of this section are able to receive related documentation and materials in a timely manner.

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Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

HB 2951 2 (4) "Axle load", the total load transmitted to the road by all wheels whose centers are included between two parallel transverse vertical planes forty inches apart, extending across the full width of the vehicle;

HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 3 (8) "Bus", a motor vehicle primarily for the transportation of a driver and eight or more passengers but not including shuttle buses;

A truck HB 2951 3 tractor equipped with a dromedary may carry part of a load when operating independently or in a combination with a semitrailer;

or HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 4 (c) "Class 3 electric bicycle", an electric bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of twenty-eight miles per hour;

HB 2951 4 (26) "Kit vehicle", a motor vehicle assembled by a person other than a generally recognized manufacturer of motor vehicles by the use of a glider kit or replica purchased from an authorized manufacturer and accompanied by a manufacturer's statement of origin;

HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 5 Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to prevent any motor vehicle from being registered as a commercial motor vehicle or local commercial motor vehicle;

and when operated on the national system of interstate and defense highways described in 23 HB 2951 5 U.S.C.

HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 6 (33) "Major component parts", the rear clip, cowl, frame, body, cab, front-end assembly, and front clip, as those terms are defined by the director of revenue pursuant to rules and regulations or by illustrations;

(40) "Motortricycle", a motor vehicle upon which the operator straddles or sits astride that is designed to be controlled by handle bars and is operated on three wheels, including a motorcycle while operated with any conveyance, temporary or otherwise, requiring the use of HB 2951 6 a third wheel, but excluding an electric bicycle.

(45) "Owner", any person, firm, corporation or association, who holds the legal title to a vehicle or who has executed a buyer's order or retail installment sales contract with a motor vehicle dealer licensed under sections 301.550 to 301.580 for the purchase of a vehicle with an immediate right of possession vested in the transferee, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 7 possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner;

HB 2951 7 (51) "Recreational trailer", any trailer designed, constructed, or substantially modified so that it may be used and is used for the purpose of temporary housing quarters, including therein sleeping or eating facilities, which can be temporarily attached to a motor vehicle or attached to a unit which is securely attached to a motor vehicle;

(53) "Resident", a person who declares himself or herself to be a resident of Missouri for the purpose of obtaining a Missouri driver's license by showing proof of residency as defined in section 302.171 and as a resident of the state to obtain privileges HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 8 not ordinarily extended to nonresidents including, but not limited to, going to school or placing children in school without paying nonresident tuition or fees;

HB 2951 8 (c) Has been declared salvage by an insurance company as a result of settlement of a claim;

HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 9 b.

[(59)](61)[(59)] (61) "Special mobile equipment", every self-propelled vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and incidentally operated or moved over the highways, including farm equipment, implements of husbandry, road construction or maintenance machinery, ditch-digging apparatus, stone crushers, air compressors, power shovels, cranes, graders, rollers, well-drillers and wood-sawing equipment used for hire, asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, ditchers, leveling graders, finished machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls, scrapers, drag lines, concrete pump trucks, rock-drilling and earth-moving equipment.

HB 2951 9 [(60)] (62) "Specially constructed motor vehicle", a motor vehicle which shall not have been originally constructed under a distinctive name, make, model or type by a manufacturer of motor vehicles.

[(61)](63)[(61)] (63) "Stinger-steered combination", a truck tractor-semitrailer wherein the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame located behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit;

[(63)] (65) "Towaway trailer transporter combination", a combination of vehicles consisting of a trailer transporter towing unit and two trailers or semitrailers, with a total HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 10 weight that does not exceed twenty-six thousand pounds;

[(69)] (71) "Truck-trailer boat transporter combination", a boat transporter combination consisting of a straight truck towing a trailer using typically a ball and socket HB 2951 10 connection with the trailer axle located substantially at the trailer center of gravity rather than the rear of the trailer but so as to maintain a downward force on the trailer tongue;

[(72)] (74) "Vanpool", any van or other motor vehicle used or maintained by any person, group, firm, corporation, association, city, county or state agency, or any member thereof, for the transportation of not less than eight nor more than forty-eight employees, per HCS HBs 2951, 2958 & 2977 11 motor vehicle, to and from their place of employment;

[(74)](76)[(74)] (76) "Wrecker" or "tow truck", any emergency commercial vehicle equipped, designed and used to assist or render aid and transport or tow disabled or wrecked vehicles from a highway, road, street or highway rights-of-way to a point of storage or repair, including towing a replacement vehicle to replace a disabled or wrecked vehicle;