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This bill allows a motor vehicle lease to be terminated upon the death of the lessee and prohibits a dealer or lessor from imposing or assessing any fee for the termination of the lease. In addition, the bill prohibits a lease from requiring, in the event of a lessee's death, that the decedent's surviving spouse, family member, guardian, or estate administrator or executor purchase the leased motor vehicle, buy out the remainder of the lease, or continue to lease the motor vehicle under the original terms of the lease. Finally, the bill requires a surviving spouse, family member, guardian, or estate administrator or executor to provide a death certificate or other satisfactory proof of the lessee's death to the dealer or lessor within 60 days after the death of the decedent in order to have a lease terminated under the provisions of this bill.

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Jim Beach (D)*,  Nilsa Cruz-Perez (D)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee (on 04/18/2016)