Amendment #926 to H3800

Registry of motor vehicles

Mrs. O'Connell of Taunton moves to amend the bill by adding the following 3 sections:

“SECTION XX. Chapter 90 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section: -

Section 63. There shall be a third-party audit of the database of the registry of motor vehicles for the purpose of detecting and identifying: (i) existing license holders for potential fraud or duplicate issuances of license/registrations; (ii) anomalies in licensed identities; (iii) potential fraud rings; (iv) addresses containing post offices boxes; and (v) other such anomalies and fraud indicators. For the purposes of this section the term “third party audit” shall mean an independent review and examination of registry of motor vehicles data pursuant to clauses (i) to (v), inclusive.

SECTION XX. Notwithstanding any general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, the first audit required by this act shall take place on or before December 1, 2019.

SECTION XX. The registrar of motor vehicles shall promulgate emergency regulations to implement this act no later than 30 days after the passage of this act“.

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #926 to H3800

Registry of motor vehicles