Car Dealers, Rental Companies want to be Exempt of New Bill About Recall Repairs
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Car Dealers, Rental Companies want to be Exempt of New Bill About Recall Repairs



The U.S. Congress wants to introduce new legislation that will prohibit any rental-car company or car dealer to loan or sell any recalled vehicle before the necessary repairs have been made.

The new bill, knows as the Rachel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act, is named after two sisters from Santa Cruz, California, who were killed when the car they had rented caught fire and crashed into a tree. Said rental vehicle was affected by a recall but had not been repaired.

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