Michigan legislation · 103rd Legislature
Michigan SB198: Occupations: vehicles, dealers, and repair facilities; requirements for automobile dealer data collection; provide for. Creates new act.
Status: Signed into law, October 14, 2026
What the bill says
An act to regulate data collection by motor vehicle dealers, manufacturers, and third parties; to prescribe requirements for the collection, sharing, and use of protected dealer data; and to regulate dealer data vendors and authorized integrators.
From the chaptered text, October 9, 2026:
AN ACT to regulate data collection by motor vehicle dealers, manufacturers, and third parties; to prescribe requirements for the collection, sharing, and use of protected dealer data; and to regulate dealer data vendors and authorized integrators. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Sec. 1. This act may be cited as the motor vehicle dealer data collection act. Sec. 3. As used in this act: (a) Authorized integrator means a third party that a dealer enters into a contractual relationship with to perform a specific function for the dealer that allows the third party to access protected dealer data or to write data to a dealer data system, or both, to carry out the specified function. (b) Consumer data means nonpublic personal information as that term is defined in 15 USC 6809. (c) Cyber ransom means to encrypt, restrict, or prohibit or threaten or attempt to encrypt, restrict, or prohibit a dealers or an authorized integrators access to protected dealer data to obtain payment not agreed to by the dealer or the authorized integrator in a written contract for services or goods. (d) Dealer means that term as defined in section 11 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.11. (e) Dealer data system means a software, hardware, or firmware system that is owned, leased, or licensed …
Sponsors
- Singh, Sam (D, 28) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : ASSIGNED PA 0113'26 WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
- : FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE 10/9/2026 10:42 AM
- : APPROVED BY GOVERNOR 10/9/2026 9:32 AM
- : PRESENTED TO GOVERNOR 10/5/2026 2:28 PM
- : ORDERED ENROLLED
- : GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT
- : returned to Senate
- : passed; given immediate effect Roll Call #369 Yeas 102 Nays 1 Excused 0 Not Voting 7
- : read a third time
- : placed on immediate passage
Votes
- passed; given immediate effect (September 22, 2026): 102 yea, 1 nay, passed
- PASSED (January 28, 2026): 34 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Occupations: vehicles, dealers, and repair facilities
Common questions
- What is SB198?
- SB198 is a bill in the Michigan Legislature (103rd Legislature): Occupations: vehicles, dealers, and repair facilities; requirements for automobile dealer data collection; provide for. Creates new act.
- What does SB198 do?
- In its own words: An act to regulate data collection by motor vehicle dealers, manufacturers, and third parties; to prescribe requirements for the collection, sharing, and use of protected dealer data; and to regulate dealer data vendors and authorized integrators.
- What is the status of SB198?
- Signed into law as of October 14, 2026. Latest action: ASSIGNED PA 0113'26 WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT (October 14, 2026).
- Who sponsored SB198?
- Singh, Sam (D, 28).
- Where is the official record for SB198?
- On the Michigan Legislature website: https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2025-SB-0198
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