Pennsylvania introduced HB 2501 on July 23, 2024, proposing window-tint meter testing as part of vehicle safety inspections. The official history for the 2023–2024 session lists referral to the House Transportation Committee that day, with no later vote or enactment recorded.
The bill would have required a tinted vehicle to fail inspection if its tint violated the cited state regulations. It also proposed consumer-protection consequences when a seller of tinting services failed to tell a purchaser that an alteration would violate those rules.
These provisions remained proposals in this bill. Its clause calling for commencement 60 days after enactment did not itself create an inspection requirement or a new cause of action.
For the film trade, the measure connected two different checkpoints: what an installer tells a customer before work and what an inspector measures afterward. This historical account does not determine existing consumer-protection liability or the status of any later bill on the same subject.
Sources & reporting notes
- HB2501 status and history, 2023–2024 session Pennsylvania General Assembly · Source dated July 23, 2024Date of recorded legislative action; page-generated timestamp is not the news date.
- HB2501, Printer’s Number3519 Pennsylvania General Assembly · Source dated July 23, 2024
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