smog bill passes committee Options

[dmenche914]

California bill 2683 passed the committee voted 8 yes, 4 No.

This is not good, as it will now go for further voting.

This law will make all cars 1976 and newer have required smog tests forever.

I urge you to contact your legislature representative to vote this down when it goes to further votes.


dave

[lapuwali]

Went to the Assembly site to re-read the text of this bill, and they amended it three weeks ago, after I read it last. The new text is very interesting, but I'm not 100% certain it means what I think it means.

Under existing law, the 30 year rolling exemption is only for the test, not for the actual smog regulations. If they found some other way (roadside, random pullover, etc) to check you, you'll still be nailed if you didn't comply even if the car is more than 30 years old. However, the new text strongly implies that '75 and older cars would also now be exempt from COMPLIANCE, not just from being tested. This would be a positive thing, in my view. Someone else go to the Assembly site and read the bill to see if you come away with the same impression. It's a short bill, and the new text is italicized in the HTML version.

If this is so, then I think there's a very strong effort to get this bill passed w/o offending "us", and I'm thinking even more this is likely to become law.