Pennsylvania SB 895: An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in registration of vehicles, further providing for registration card to be signed and exhibited on demand.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 1016
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 895
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY MILLER, FLYNN, COSTA, HUGHES, LAUGHLIN, MASTRIANO,
CAPPELLETTI, FONTANA AND HAYWOOD, JUNE 25, 2025
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 25, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in registration of vehicles, further providing for
registration card to be signed and exhibited on demand.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1311(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
§ 1311. Registration card to be signed and exhibited on demand.
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(b) Carrying and exhibiting card.--Every registration card
shall, at all times while the vehicle is being operated upon a
highway, be in the possession of the person driving or in
control of the vehicle or carried in the vehicle and shall be
exhibited upon demand of any police officer. Proof of
registration may be satisfied under this chapter by production
of a registration card in paper or electronic form.
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(d) Immunity.--If a registrant chooses to provide proof of
financial responsibility to be viewed in an electronic format on
an electronic device under section 1786 (relating to required
financial responsibility), a police officer administering this
subchapter in good faith shall be immune from any civil or
criminal liability which arises from the insured's choice,
including the inadvertent viewing of materials on the device
other than the proof of financial responsibility, inadvertent
deletion of information from the device, inadvertent
interception of a communication while in possession of the
device and breakage which occurs to the device.
Section 2. This act shall take effect as follows:
(1) The amendment of 75 Pa.C.S. § 1311(b) shall take
effect in 12 months.
(2) This section shall take effect immediately.
(3) The remainder of this act shall take effect in 60
days.
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