Steve Demetriou, State Representative — House Bill 195, Adaptive Mobility Dealer Licensure
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State Representative Steve Demetriou of the 35th House District gave testimony introducing House Bill 195, which makes changes within the Ohio Revised Code regarding adaptive mobility dealer licensure. The testimony thanks Representative Sean Brennan for working on the bill. It says the Bureau of Motor Vehicles currently licenses auto dealers under three categories, new, used, and remanufactured dealers, and that adaptive mobility dealers have been operating under a sort of grey area. It says feedback came from adaptive mobility dealers and the Ohio Auto Dealers Association.
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35th House District Committees
Parts of Geauga, Portage and Vice Chair - Armed Services and
Summit Counties Veterans Affairs
Homeland Security
Columbus Office Public Health Policy
Vern Riffe Center Technology and Innovation
77 S. High Street Ways and Means
11th Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215-6111
(614) 644-5088
Rep35@ohiohouse.gov
Steve Demetriou
www.ohiohouse.gov State Representative
Good afternoon Chairman Johnson, Vice Chair Manchester,
Ranking Member McNally and other colleagues on the Commerce and
Labor Committee. Thank you for the opportunity to introduce House
Bill 195 – which makes changes within the Ohio Revised Code with
regards to adaptive mobility dealer licensure.
I would also like to thank Representative Sean Brennan for
working with me on this bill.
As a conservative Republican, I am highly skeptical of any new or
additional licenses mandated for businesses in the State of Ohio. So,
when I learned about the effort to define a new category of dealer
licenses for adaptive mobility dealers, I was initially skeptical.
However, after directly speaking with business operators in this
niche industry across Ohio, I quickly learned that this is a pro-business
effort. It became clear to me that adaptive mobility dealers have been
operating under a sort of grey area for many years. The Bureau of Motor
Vehicles currently licenses auto dealers under three categories, new,
used, and remanufactured dealers. While adaptive mobility dealers tend
to make non-chassis modifications to new vehicles, but can also modify
and sell used vehicles, ORC does not truly define what these dealerships
do or sell. Thus, adaptive mobility dealers have been operating in limbo
under current law- the BMV could technically stop their business
operations at any time for not having the correct dealer license, but the
catch is that the correct license doesn’t actually exist.
That’s where House Bill 195 comes in. Eliminating this grey area
will allow these important businesses to comply with law while not
creating an additional licensure burden from the State.
We’ve worked hard to ensure that this is in fact a pro-business bill.
We’ve gotten feedback from adaptive mobility dealers, as well as the
Ohio Auto Dealers Association, to ensure that House Bill 195 makes
sense for the auto industry.
I ask for your support of House Bill 195 to allow both disabled
Ohioans and adaptive mobility dealerships to thrive in Ohio.
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