CA Smog Law, proposed changes Options

[scruz914]

Anyone know about this? I pulled it off of "TheSamba":

Current 30 year CA rolling smog rules may be thrown out.....

Next hearing date for AB2683 is May 19th, 2004 in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_265...513_status.html

As amended, California vehicles with an original manufacturer year prior to 1976 would be exempt from getting the smogcheck though they would not be exempt from having the equipment on the vehicle. Bye-bye third party equipment to be legal.

The bill must be out of the Assembly and over to the Senate by May 28. With the budget on the agenda, that may be a tight priority schedule. DMV has said the deadline for planning mailer notices is July. If it isn't signed by July it means that the bill would need to be amended again to add a year.

[SirAndy]

As amended, California vehicles with an original manufacturer year prior to 1976 would be exempt from getting the smogcheck though they would not be exempt from having the equipment on the vehicle. Bye-bye third party equipment to be legal.

if i'm not mistaken, that's exactly how it works right now.

currently "smog excempt" means you're only excempt from the TEST but you are still (legally) required to run the smog equipment (if your car came with it) ...

that's how it was explained to me.
luckily, my car didn't have any smog-o-crap on it when it came to the US in '70.
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Andy