The Washington Metropolitan Auto Body Association (WMABA) was the lone voice of concern during a Maryland legislative hearing for a bill that would penalize collision shops for calibrations that don’t meet the bill’s requirements and require licensing or training.
The requirements and licensing (or training) programs aren’t fully clear, as there appears to have been a scramble to rework the bill, SB 789, prior to the Judicial Proceedings hearing held Wednesday.
Originally, the bill seemed to require OEM tools and procedures for calibrations but a flurry of amendments that hadn’t been provided to the full committee or interested parties have found the support of insurance, LKQ, and Safelite. The bill was still presented as supporting OEM procedures but the specific wording is unknown…