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MEMA Fights Illinois Automotive Bill by Chris Galford, TransportationToday
The Illinois House is currently considering a bill that would amend IL law to prohibit vehicular repair businesses from using parts or procedures that aren’t compliant with original equipment manufacturers. The legislation has the ire of the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA). MEMA believes S.B. 2104 would limit the use of quality aftermarket parts by demanding written consent for the use of non-original equipment following crashes. In a letter to Marcus C. Evans, Jr., Illinois general assembly house labor and
commerce committee chairman, the association said such actions would be detrimental to the automotive aftermarket manufacturing industry—a $305 billion industry. “The language in S.B. 2104 discourages the use of aftermarket replacement parts for motor vehicles,” MEMA’s letter stated. “If this bill passes, consumers will be faced with higher repair costs and fewer repair choices, and manufacturing jobs would suffer due to less demand for aftermarket products. By requiring written consent for the use of nonoriginal equipment aftermarket crash parts, this legislation discourages the See MEMA Fights, Page 27
Common Mistakes Body Shops Make When Recycling & Staying Green
ices for recalled and expired goods. It also provides related education and training services for many companies, including collision repair shops. Headquartered in Lake Forest, IL, with many more bases of operation around the world, Stericycle maintains toxic waste incinerators in Utah and North Carolina.
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Wade Scheel, director of governmental affairs at Stericycle Environmental Solutions, has been working at the 30year-old compliance company for 11 years and has three decades of industry experience. Stericycle specializes in Wade Scheel, collecting and disposing director of regulated substances, such governmental as medical waste and sharps, affairs at Stericycle pharmaceuticals, hazardous Environmental Solutions waste, and providing serv-
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Report on Use of Credit Scores on Insurance Premiums Requested by MI Governor by Paul Egan and Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press
Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, asked for a report on the use of non-driving related factors, such as credit scores, in setting auto insurance premiums. Meanwhile, Mike Shirkey, RClarklake, senate majority leader, said a plan to reduce Michigan auto insurance premiums, which are the highest in the nation and particularly high in the city of Detroit, will be introduced in the legislature within days. Whitmer instructed the Department of Insurance and Financial Services to study and report on both the use of non-driving factors in setting auto insurance premiums, and the use of policies that coordinate auto insurance coverage with a driver’s existing health insurance policies, which low-
ers the risk to auto insurers. Whitmer talks with the Detroit Free Press editorial board on at the newspaper on Thursday, February 14, 2019. Under a coordinated policy, when a motorist is injured in a car accident, his or her health insurance is supposed to pay first, and then the auto insurer is responsible for the balance. The law requires auto insurance companies to lower premiums for coordinated policies, to account for the reduced risk and Whitmer’s study appears intended, in part, to determine whether that is happening. Michigan auto insurers, with some limitations, can use non-driving factors to determine insurance premiums. These factors can include education, home ownership, occupation, See MI Gov Requests, Page 27
CIC Speakers Debate Need to Legislate Use of OEM Repair Procedures
was geared towards new limits the legislation would have placed on the State legislative efforts to enact leg- use of non-OEM parts. islation on the use of OEM repair pro“In the collision industry, we cedures have bogged down. can’t seem to escape loading Other issues, such as steerthese things up,” Bob Reding and non-OEM parts, ding, national lobbyist for have taken priority. Therethe Automotive Service Asfore, these issues are being sociation (ASA), said of incorporated into the prosuch state bills. “Only a few posed legislation, according [of the current proposed state regulations] are skinny to speakers at the Collision Bob Redding bills, dealing with OEM Industry Conference held in procedures. We often see parts get in. Nashville, TN. For example, a bill in Nevada In some state bills, like in Texas, you that would have prohibited an in- see steering slip in there. When you surer “to repair a motor vehicle in a have a bill moving, people try to manner which is contrary to the rec- solve every single issue in it. It brings ommendations of the manufacturer in all sorts of controversy when it of the vehicle,” failed to move for- picks those other kinds of things. It ward by a legislative deadline, this brings out other adversaries, and typspring. Opposition to the bill surfaced ically [the bills] have problems along at a hearing in March. The opposition See CIC Speakers Page 22 by John Yoswick
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