HB 247 Missouri House · 2025 Regular Session

Establishes a five-year motor vehicle registration option for motor vehicles with a model year of manufacture that is less than six years old

HB 247 creates a new five-year motor vehicle registration option for vehicles with a model year of manufacture less than six years old. This change directly affects owners of relatively new passenger vehicles who would previously have been required to register annually or biennially. The bill repeals existing registration terms and establishes that eligible vehicles may be registered for a five-year period instead of the standard shorter terms. This is a concrete policy change to registration duration, not a fee adjustment or new requirement.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Dec 2024

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Dec 2, 2024 Last action Mar 31, 2025

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House Committee Substitute → Perfected · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was expanded from repealing and replacing only two sections of motor vehicle registration law to eight sections, significantly broadening its scope. The most substantive change involves new requirements for odometer information retention for newer vehicles and updated procedures for reconstructing or salvaged vehicles, while also adding additional statutes to the repeal list.

Scope change

The bill now affects eight separate sections of the Revised Statutes of Missouri (RSMo) instead of two, covering a wider range of motor vehicle registration topics including odometer records and vehicle reconstruction.

REQUIREMENT

Added new requirements for the director of revenue to retain odometer information for model year 2012 or newer vehicles with fewer than 150,000 miles on the odometer for ten years, applicable to both business and non-business vehicles under specific conditions.

Added new procedures for handling reconstructed, salvage, and specially constructed vehicles, including requirements to surrender certificates of ownership and submit documentation for major component parts.

SCOPE

Expanded the bill's scope by adding five additional sections (301.020, 301.190, 307.350, 307.380) to the list of repealed statutes, increasing the number of sections being replaced from two to eight.

TIMELINE

Updated the date threshold for odometer information retention requirements from July 1, 1989 to July 1, 1990 for certain vehicle certificates of ownership.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Mar 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

SCS Voted Do Pass (S)

upper

Mar 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

Public Hearing Scheduled (S) - Monday, March 24, 2025, 2:00 p.m., Senate Committee Room 1 - 1st Floor

upper

Mar 13, 2025

Committee

Second read and referred: Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety(S)

upper

Feb 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Third Read and Passed (H) - AYES: 151 NOES: 2 PRESENT: 1

lower

Feb 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 7 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0

lower

Feb 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Voted Do Pass (H)

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Committee

Referred: Fiscal Review(H)

lower

Feb 19, 2025

Lower · Passed

Perfected with Amendments (H) - HA 1 and HA 2, adopted.

lower

Feb 19, 2025

Lower · Passed

HCS Adopted (H)

lower

Feb 11, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 9 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0

lower

Feb 11, 2025

Lower · Passed

Voted Do Pass (H)

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Referred: Rules - Administrative(H)

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

HCS Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 17 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 2

lower

Feb 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

HCS Voted Do Pass (H)

lower

Jan 22, 2025

Committee

Referred: Government Efficiency(H)

lower

Dec 2, 2024

Introduced

Prefiled (H)

lower

1 primary · 4 co-sponsors