{ "$schema": "https://theautobodydirectory.com/.well-known/glass-laws.schema.json", "title": "Auto glass disclosure and ADAS calibration laws, by US state", "description": "One record per state. Every row was read from the state's own statute, administrative rule or agency document -- not from a trade summary. \"adasDisclosureDuty\" is true only where a glass shop owes a written ADAS recalibration disclosure today.", "license": "CC BY 4.0 -- attribute to The Auto Body Directory with a link", "source": "https://theautobodydirectory.com/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state", "generatedFrom": "content/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state.md", "generatedAt": "2026-08-06", "counts": { "total": 50, "adasDisclosureDuty": 9, "glassLawNoAdasDuty": 14, "billOnly": 9, "noGlassLaw": 18 }, "states": [ { "code": "AL", "state": "Alabama", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "Ala. Admin. Code 482-1-125" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law. The unfair-claims rule reaches repair generally, not glass.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS rule. Ala. Admin. Code 482-1-125-.08(3) bars requiring a claimant to travel an unreasonable distance \"to have the automobile repaired at a specific repair shop\"; (6) giving names on request is not designating a shop; (8)(c) no requiring the insured to supply parts", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "AK", "state": "Alaska", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "3 AAC 26.080" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law. 3 AAC 26.080 read in full -- zero for glass, windshield or calibration.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS rule -- 3 AAC 26.080 read in full, controls passing, zero for glass, windshield and calibration. It does carry a real duty: (f) if the adjuster \"elects to have repaired a claimant's motor vehicle and chooses a specific facility... that person shall guarantee the repairs and cause the vehicle to be restored to its condition before the loss, at no additional cost to the claimant\"", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "AZ", "state": "Arizona", "status": "adas-duty", "adasDisclosureDuty": true, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "A.R.S. 20-463.02" ], "summary": "ADAS disclosure duty in force since 2022, with a $2,500 civil penalty. Second-oldest in the country.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "A.R.S. 20-463.02 in force since 2022. ADAS notice before and after, notice to insurer on failure, $2,500", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "AR", "state": "Arkansas", "status": "bill-only", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "SB 602 (2025)" ], "summary": "No law in force. SB 602 (2025) would have barred requiring a particular safety-glass facility; it died.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "SB 602 (2025) would have barred insurers and appraisers requiring a particular safety-glass facility, with penalties. Passed the Senate, then died in House Insurance and Commerce at sine die, 5 May 2025. No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "CA", "state": "California", "status": "bill-only", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "SB 988" ], "summary": "No law in force. SB 988 is the NCOIL model almost section for section, and is still live.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "SB 988, live, the model nearly section for section", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "CO", "state": "Colorado", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [], "summary": "No glass-specific law. Note: a widely repeated citation to C.R.S. 10-4-613 does not support the claim made for it.", "evidence": "READ (agency)", "guideRow": "No glass-specific law. The Division of Insurance cites C.R.S. 10-4-120 for the right to choose any repair shop and for the insurer paying reasonable market costs. General repair, not glass, and no ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "CT", "state": "Connecticut", "status": "bill-only", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "HB 5262 (2026)" ], "summary": "No law in force. Connecticut is the only state whose bill names the NCOIL model act outright.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "Raised HB 5262 (2026) would have required the Insurance Commissioner to review the motor vehicle glass repair national model. Public hearing 24 February, no action since", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "DE", "state": "Delaware", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "18 Del. Admin. Code 902" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law. The auto claims regulation binds the insurer and does not mention glass.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS law. 18 DE Admin. Code 902 now read (the page needs JavaScript, so a plain fetch returns an empty shell) -- controls pass, and glass, windshield, ADAS and calibration all return zero. The Insurance Department's auto guide says \"The final choice of repair shop is yours\"", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "FL", "state": "Florida", "status": "adas-duty", "adasDisclosureDuty": true, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "Ch. 2023-136, Laws of Florida" ], "summary": "ADAS disclosure duty in force since 25 May 2023, plus an assignment-of-benefits ban. No private cause of action.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "Ch. 2023-136. Inducement ban, ADAS notice, AOB void, free choice", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "GA", "state": "Georgia", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 120-2-52" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law, but the aftermarket-parts rule is substantial -- and it defines crash parts as sheet metal or plastic, so glass sits outside it.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS law -- statute search controlled and clean. But Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 120-2-52 is substantial: .03(8)(a) no requiring a particular repairer where the insured can get it done for the same cost; .04(1) the estimate must restore the vehicle \"to its preaccident condition relative to quality, safety, function and appearance\"; .05(5) no requiring the insured to authorise aftermarket crash parts -- but .05(2) defines those as sheet metal or plastic, so glass is outside it", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "HI", "state": "Hawaii", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "HRS 437B-1", "HRS 437B-13" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law. The repair statute makes a shop disclose crash parts on the invoice, but defines them as sheet metal or plastic -- glass is excluded.", "evidence": "READ (statute read in full)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS law, and Hawaii is the cleanest proof of the pattern on this page. Two corpora, both read. Insurance: the Division's own HAR chapter list has no unfair-claims-settlement chapter at all, so there is no rule of that kind to contain a glass provision. Repair: HRS 437B licenses repair dealers under consumer affairs, and we read all nineteen sections. 437B-13 is a real disclosure duty on the shop -- if crash, used, rebuilt or reconditioned parts are supplied, \"the invoice shall clearly state that fact\". But 437B-1 defines \"crash parts\" as \"motor vehicle replacement parts, either sheet metal or plastic, which constitute the visible exterior of the vehicle\" -- glass is neither, so the duty cannot reach it. The only glass-family word in the entire chapter is \"windshield wiper blades\", and it appears in the list of *minor services that are not regulated repairs at all*", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "ID", "state": "Idaho", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "IDAPA 18.02.02", "Idaho Code 41-1329" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law, and no unfair-claims chapter anywhere in IDAPA 18 -- Idaho leaves claim conduct to statute.", "evidence": "READ (rule read in full)", "guideRow": "None found, and structurally so. We enumerated all 41 chapters of IDAPA 18 from the Department of Insurance's own rules index: the property/casualty group is three chapters, and there is no unfair-claims-settlement chapter anywhere in the title -- Idaho leaves that to statute (Idaho Code 41-1329). We then read the only auto rule, 18.02.02 Automobile Insurance Policies, end to end: nine operative sections covering misrepresentation, termination timing, renewal notices and UM/UIM. No repair, no glass, no calibration", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "IL", "state": "Illinois", "status": "bill-only", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "HB 4373" ], "summary": "No law in force. HB 4373 passed the House 110-0, then stalled; it stays alive into 2027.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "HB 4373, passed the House 110-0, parked in Assignments, alive into 2027", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "IN", "state": "Indiana", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "Ind. Code 27-4-1.5" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law, but a real repair statute: written notice of your right to choose the parts type, and no directing repairs without approval.", "evidence": "READ (dept. bulletin)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS law -- but IC 27-4-1.5 (HB 1024, 1991) is a real repair statute: the insurer must give the insured written notice of the right to choose the parts type (new OEM / new non-OEM / used), and is prohibited from directing or authorising repairs without approval or waiver inside 20 days. Named insureds only, vehicles up to 6 years old. Breach is an Unfair Claims Settlement Act violation", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "IA", "state": "Iowa", "status": "adas-duty", "adasDisclosureDuty": true, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "Iowa Code ch. 321B" ], "summary": "ADAS disclosure duty in force for policies issued or renewed on or after 1 July 2025. The NCOIL model adopted whole.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "Code ch. 321B in force for policies issued or renewed on or after 1 July 2025. The full model", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "KS", "state": "Kansas", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "K.S.A. 40-2,155" ], "summary": "Glass law since 1994: the insurer may not require a particular shop, and need not pay above the lowest prevailing market price.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "K.S.A. 40-2,155 (1994). Insurer may not require a particular company or location, nor intimidate or coerce. May give a list; you may go off it. Insurer need not pay above the \"lowest prevailing market price\". No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "KY", "state": "Kentucky", "status": "adas-duty", "adasDisclosureDuty": true, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "SB 29, 2024 Acts ch. 27" ], "summary": "ADAS disclosure duty in force since 2 April 2024. This is the law the national model was written from.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "SB 29, 2024 Acts ch. 27. The law the NCOIL model was written from", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "LA", "state": "Louisiana", "status": "adas-duty", "adasDisclosureDuty": true, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "Act 327 (HB 929, 2026)" ], "summary": "ADAS disclosure duty in force since 22 May 2026 -- the newest in the country, with an unusual enforcement hook.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "In force since 22 May 2026. HB 929, Act 327, R.S. 22:1964.1, the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Glass Law. Unanimous in both chambers", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "ME", "state": "Maine", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "24-A M.R.S. 2164-C" ], "summary": "Glass law since 2005: free competition, and a ban on the spread-taking compensation model used by glass intermediaries.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "24-A M.R.S. 2164-C \"Free competition\" (2005). Insurer may not require glass appraisals or repairs be made or not be made at a named shop, and may not pay a glass manager a share of the spread between list price and what the shop is paid. Sub-2 does the same for collision. No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "MD", "state": "Maryland", "status": "adas-duty", "adasDisclosureDuty": true, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "Md. Commercial Law 14-1327", "HB 920 (2023 RS), ch. 561, eff. 1 Oct 2023" ], "summary": "ADAS disclosure duty in force since 1 October 2023: written statement that the work meets or exceeds OEM specification, and notice if a required recalibration was not done. Not an OEM-parts mandate -- 14-1327(c)(1) says the facility is not limited to manufacturer glass, tooling or procedures.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "Commercial Law 14-1327 in force, added by HB 920 (2023), ch. 561, eff. 1 Oct 2023", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "MA", "state": "Massachusetts", "status": "bill-only", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "S.2426" ], "summary": "No law in force. S.2426 has sat in Senate Ways and Means since 31 December 2025.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "S.2426 (O'Connor), alive in Senate Ways and Means since 31 Dec 2025. A fourth register entirely: it binds the Registrar, not the shop or insurer. New G.L. c.90 s.9E would require aftermarket glass work to meet or exceed OEM spec, ANSI Z26.1 / 49 CFR 571.205 and AGRSS -- and would let the Registrar suspend a vehicle's registration until it is fixed. No ADAS notice, no AOB clause", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "MI", "state": "Michigan", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "MCL 500.2110b" ], "summary": "Glass law since 2004: an insurer may not unreasonably restrict your choice of glass shop.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "MCL 500.2110b (2004 Act 190) bars an insurer unreasonably restricting your choice of glass shop and makes the insurer disclose its own shop agreements. Binds the insurer. No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "MN", "state": "Minnesota", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "Minn. Stat. 325F.783" ], "summary": "Glass law binding the SHOP, not the insurer: no waiving or paying any part of the deductible, and no rebate, gift or coupon to win the job.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "325F.783 (2000, am. 2002) binds the shop: no waiving or paying any part of the deductible, no rebate, gift, prize, coupon, credit or referral fee as an inducement. Attorney General enforces. No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "MS", "state": "Mississippi", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "Mississippi Insurance Dept. guidance" ], "summary": "The Insurance Department states an insurer may not dictate where repairs are made, and caps payment at the lowest amount.", "evidence": "READ (dept. statement)", "guideRow": "The Insurance Department states an insurer \"may not dictate to you where you must have your repairs made\" and may not condition payment on using a particular facility. And it names glass in the price rule: \"the most an insurance company shall be required to pay for the repair of the vehicle or repair or replacement of the glass is the lowest amount\" it could properly be done for in the area. No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "MO", "state": "Missouri", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "20 CSR 100-1.050(2)" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS rule, but a price floor and an aftermarket disclosure -- which covers sheet metal or plastic only, so not glass.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS rule. 20 CSR 100-1.050(2) -- (B) no unreasonable travel to a specific repair shop; (G) a price floor: the insurer may not cash-settle below what it would pay if repairs were made, absent agreement; (D)2.A a mandated 10-point-type aftermarket disclosure, which by (D)3.B covers sheet metal or plastic only", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "MT", "state": "Montana", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "MCA 33-18-223" ], "summary": "Glass law since 1993, and one of the few that defines a \"glass broker\". Price may not be set below market.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "MCA 33-18-223 \"Prohibited activities -- glass broker defined\" (1993, am. 2009). The only statute in the country that names and regulates the glass-broker model: an insurer may not use a broker to set the price a shop must meet, may not require billing through the broker, and may not set a price below market price (33-18-222). No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "NE", "state": "Nebraska", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "Neb. Rev. Stat. 44-6604" ], "summary": "Glass law: free choice of shop, with the insurer liable only up to the lowest estimate.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "Rev. Stat. 44-1540(16). Unfair claims settlement practice to require a particular shop -- and it says expressly that \"motor vehicle repair shall include motor vehicle glass replacement and motor vehicle glass repair\". But the insurer is not liable above the lowest estimate if you go elsewhere. No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "NV", "state": "Nevada", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "NAC 686A.240(3)" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS rule. The body-part definition is sheet metal, plastic or composite -- glass is outside it.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS rule. NAC 686A.240 requires an insurer to disclose when an estimate is based on non-OEM body parts -- but (3) defines \"body part\" as sheet metal, plastic or composite, so glass is outside it. Nevada also legislates only in odd years, so there is no 2026 session", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "NH", "state": "New Hampshire", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "RSA 417:4, XX" ], "summary": "Glass law titled for it: coercion in requiring certain automobile or glass repair is an unfair practice. Price must be fair and reasonable.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "RSA 417:4, XX \"Coercion in Requiring Certain Automobile or Glass Repair\". Anti-steering, plus a real duty: if the insurer names a shop it must tell the customer any other may be used. Payment limited to a \"fair and reasonable price in the area... with the usual and customary guarantees\", with a defined fallback if shop and insurer disagree. No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "NJ", "state": "New Jersey", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "N.J.A.C. 11:3-10.3(e)" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS rule. You may use any repair facility of your choice. The widely repeated claim that NJ bars aftermarket glass without consent is not in the rule.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS rule. N.J.A.C. 11:3-10.3(e): \"the insured may use any repair facility of his or her own choice.\" Aftermarket duties sit in 11:2-17.10(a)11 and (a)13 -- like-kind-and-quality plus written disclosure, no consent step. The widely repeated claim that NJ bars aftermarket or used glass without consent is not in 11:3-10, which we read end to end", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "NM", "state": "New Mexico", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "NMAC Title 13 ch. 7", "NMAC Title 13 ch. 12" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law. All six live parts of the insurance trade-practice and motor-vehicle chapters scanned; zero glass.", "evidence": "READ (all six parts scanned)", "guideRow": "None found, enumerated part by part. NMAC Title 13 Chapter 7 (Insurance Trade Practices and Frauds) has four live parts -- freedom to choose an insurer, complaint records, catastrophic claims, confidential abuse information -- and Chapter 12 (Motor Vehicle Insurance) has two: UM/unknown-motorist coverage and self-insurance. We fetched and scanned all six. Zero hits for glass, windshield or calibration; the single \"repair\" hit is a temporary-substitute-vehicle definition inside the UM part", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "NY", "state": "New York", "status": "adas-duty", "adasDisclosureDuty": true, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "N.Y. GBL 392-k" ], "summary": "ADAS disclosure duty in force, the broadest duties in the country and the only graduated penalty ladder. You cannot be charged for a failed recalibration.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "GBL 392-k in force. The broadest duties and the only graduated penalty ladder", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "NC", "state": "North Carolina", "status": "bill-only", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "HB 356" ], "summary": "No law in force. HB 356 carried glass language into conference; we could not obtain the conference report.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "HB 356, \"Various Civil and Insurance Law Changes\", carried a N.C. Motor Vehicle Glass Act in its 3rd edition; it is absent from the 6th. Still live -- House refused to concur 113-0 and a conference committee was appointed 30 June 2026, so the article could in principle come back", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "ND", "state": "North Dakota", "status": "bill-only", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "HB 1240 (2025)" ], "summary": "No law in force. HB 1240 addressed glass coverage rather than disclosure, and did not pass.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "HB 1240 (2025) would have added a new section to Century Code ch. 26.1-40 on auto glass insurance coverage, not disclosure. Failed second reading 8-84", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "OH", "state": "Ohio", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "OAC 3901-1-54" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS rule. The only glass reference lets insurers keep glass-claim records in summary form.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS rule -- the only \"glass\" in OAC 3901-1-54 is (D)(1), letting insurers keep glass-claim records in summary form. Substantively: (H)(8) no unreasonable travel to a specific shop; (H)(1) pay the difference or name a shop that will do it for the estimate; (H)(5) if the insurer designates the shop it must restore the vehicle to pre-loss condition. No private cause of action", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "OK", "state": "Oklahoma", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "36 O.S. 1250.8(H)" ], "summary": "Glass law: an insurer shall not require you to use a specific glass shop, with pricing set by a competitive survey.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "36 O.S. 1250.8(H): an insurer \"shall not require a claimant to obtain motor vehicle glass repair or replacement at a spec[ific] facility\". Oddly, it sits inside a section titled *Motor Vehicle Total Losses*. No ADAS. Separately, HB 4488 (2026) is a total-loss and appraisal bill, not glass -- passed the House 64-30, parked in the Senate since 1 April", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "OR", "state": "Oregon", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "ORS 815.090" ], "summary": "Not a disclosure law but a safety-glazing offence, and a Class A misdemeanour -- installing window or windshield material that fails DOT standards.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "ORS 815.090: an offence to make or procure the replacement of a window or windshield with material failing DOT standards under ORS 815.040 -- and it is a Class A misdemeanour, the heaviest penalty attached to any glass provision in this guide. It binds the shop and the customer alike, and it is a glazing-material rule: not repair conduct, not insurer conduct, no ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "PA", "state": "Pennsylvania", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "31 Pa. Code 146.8" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law. The automobile settlement standards bind the insurer and do not reach glass.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS law. The anti-steering rule is in the regulations, not the statutes: 31 Pa. Code 146.8(b) -- insurers may not require a claimant to travel unreasonably to obtain an estimate or \"to have the automobile repaired at specific repair shops\". Controls pass on that page and glass returns zero", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "RI", "state": "Rhode Island", "status": "bill-only", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "230-RICR-30-05-2", "230-RICR-30-05-3" ], "summary": "Not a statute. Two proposed regulations would make ADAS certification a condition of a glass licence -- comment closed, no final filing.", "evidence": "READ (in our [ADAS guide](/guides/adas-calibration-laws-by-state))", "guideRow": "Not a statute. Proposed regulation 230-RICR-30-05-3 would make ADAS certification a condition of a glass licence. Comment closed 25 June, no final filing", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "SC", "state": "South Carolina", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer", "shop" ], "citations": [ "S.C. Code 38-57-75" ], "summary": "Glass law since 2012 binding insurers, administrators AND shops -- subsection (G) is a shop-conduct code, and it scripts what the administrator may say on the call.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "38-57-75 (2012) binds insurers, third-party administrators and shops -- subsection (G) is a shop-conduct code. Detailed claim-handling choreography, no ADAS. S.767 / H.4049 would add ADAS recalibration to required coverage -- an insurer duty, not a shop disclosure duty", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "SD", "state": "South Dakota", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "SDCL 58-9-17" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law. The word glass appears once in the whole insurance title -- a 1966 definition of glass insurance as a line of casualty business.", "evidence": "READ (title read in full)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS law, established from both sides. Rules: all 60 chapters of ARSD Article 20:06 (Insurance) -- no unfair-claims-settlement chapter and no automobile claim-settlement chapter; the article runs from domestic stock insurers to corporate governance without ever reaching auto claims. Statute: we read the whole of SDCL Title 58 (Insurance), and the word \"glass\" appears in it exactly once: 58-9-17, \"Casualty insurance including glass\" -- *\"'Casualty insurance' includes insurance against loss or damage to glass, including its lettering, ornamentation, and fittings.\"* That is a 1966 definition of a product line, closer to shopfront glazing than to a windshield, and it regulates nobody's conduct", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "TN", "state": "Tennessee", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0780-01-05" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law. The unfair-claims rule bars unreasonable travel to a specific shop and requires the insurer to tell you that you may choose.", "evidence": "READ (adopted rule)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS law. Rule 0780-01-05-.09(2) bars requiring a first-party claimant to travel an unreasonable distance \"to have the automobile repaired at a specific repair shop\", and .08(9) goes further than most: the insurer shall notify the policyholder of the right to choose a repair vendor. Expressly no private cause of action. Both provisions now checked against the adopted chapter, every section of which reads \"Original rules filed July 11, 2017; effective October 9, 2017\" -- so the 2017 filing is the original adoption of a new chapter, not a revision that might have moved them", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "TX", "state": "Texas", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "28 TAC 5.501" ], "summary": "No glass or ADAS law. Insurers must give a prescribed notice about your right to choose a repair shop. SB 1429 contains no glass language.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass or ADAS law -- statutes controlled and clean. 28 TAC 5.501 requires insurers to give claimants a prescribed notice: *\"By law, you have the right to select where your motor vehicle is repaired and the parts used for repairs. However, an insurance company is not required to pay more than a reasonable amount for such repairs and parts.\"* See the SB 1429 warning below", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "UT", "state": "Utah", "status": "adas-duty", "adasDisclosureDuty": true, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "Utah Code 41-6a-1645", "Utah Code 41-6a-1646" ], "summary": "ADAS disclosure duty in force since 2020 -- the FIRST in the country, three years before Florida, and it reaches resale as well as repair.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "Code 41-6a-1645 / 1646 in force since 2020. The earliest we found, and the only one reaching resale", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "VT", "state": "Vermont", "status": "bill-only", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [], "citations": [ "H.525" ], "summary": "No law in force. H.525 addresses insurance coverage for motor vehicle glass.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "H.525, \"An act relating to insurance coverage for motor vehicle glass\" (Micklus). Read first time and referred to House Commerce and Economic Development on 6 January 2026 -- and that is the only recorded action since. Coverage, not disclosure; no ADAS anywhere in the session's 1,287 bills", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "VA", "state": "Virginia", "status": "adas-duty", "adasDisclosureDuty": true, "binds": [ "shop" ], "citations": [ "Va. Motor Vehicle Glass Act" ], "summary": "ADAS disclosure duty in force. Virginia took only the notice section of the national model and attached its own enforcement.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "Motor Vehicle Glass Act. Section 4 of the model only, with no penalty schedule", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "WA", "state": "Washington", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "RCW 48.30.340" ], "summary": "Glass law since 2007 aimed at insurer-OWNED glass shops: right to choose, verbal disclosure, and a posted 18-point-type notice naming the owner.", "evidence": "READ (statute), LEAD (bill)", "guideRow": "RCW 48.30.340 (2007) targets insurer-owned glass shops: right to choose, verbal disclosure, and a posted 18-point-type notice naming the insurer owner. No private right of action, no ADAS. SB 5871 was a model glass bill and never left its first committee", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "WV", "state": "West Virginia", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer", "shop" ], "citations": [ "W. Va. Code art. 33-6D" ], "summary": "Glass law binding both sides since 1992, with a price FLOOR -- the insurer may not pay less than the prevailing market price.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "Art. 33-6D (1992, am. 2012) binds both. 33-6D-1 stops an insurer requiring a particular glass company of the insured or any claimant; 33-6D-3(c) makes the insurer pay no less than prevailing market price; and 33-6D-3(d) binds the shop -- no waiving deductibles, no rebates, discounts or incentives. No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "WI", "state": "Wisconsin", "status": "glass-law", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "Wis. Stat. 632.37" ], "summary": "Glass law since 1991: an insurer may not condition glass coverage on using its own vendor, and it protects third-party claimants too.", "evidence": "READ", "guideRow": "632.37 (1991) bars an insurer conditioning glass coverage on its own vendor, and protects a third-party claimant as well as the insured. 632.375 (2015) does the same for non-glass repair and expressly hands glass back to 632.37. No ADAS", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" }, { "code": "WY", "state": "Wyoming", "status": "none", "adasDisclosureDuty": false, "binds": [ "insurer" ], "citations": [ "Wyo. Ins. Dept. ch. 19" ], "summary": "No glass rule, and Wyoming says so in words: \"Part does not mean tires, windshields, or windows.\" The clearest statement of the carve-out in the country.", "evidence": "READ (regulation)", "guideRow": "No glass rule -- because it says so. Insurance Dept. Ch. 19 requires written consent before non-OEM parts and bars making you pay the difference for OEM, then defines the protected class: \"'Part' does not mean tires, windshields, or windows.\" The clearest statement in the country that glass sits outside the parts protections", "guideUrl": "/guides/auto-glass-disclosure-laws-by-state" } ] }