2026 Regular Session - Day 37 - HB 648 | Rep. John Blanton

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 648 is a continuation of the work that this body did last year by strengthening our laws to provide fair and reasonable protection for our state's class 7 and 8 heavy duty truck dealers. Mr. Speaker, rather than go through this whole page of notes I got, I'm going to give you the Reader's Digest version. We passed this last year and we want to close some loopholes. This is only dealing with dealers that are dealing in 7 and 8 class. In other words, think Peterbilt, think Mack, think a semi-truck. And so what's happening is when these dealers are selling these trucks and then they say have a transmission go down, the company that manufactured the truck, whatever company that may be, is saying well that's on the component company that manufactured the transmissions. The transmission company is saying Kentucky law does not say that components have to honor the warranty that those should be honored by the manufacturer. All this does is close the loopholes to make sure our big truck dealers here in Kentucky are getting paid and compensated fairly for the work they do on warranty work for vehicles they sold. With that, Mr. Speaker, if there's no questions, I would move passage of House Bill 648.