Ca. Smog Law Changes, Another amendment Options

[Allan]

Any politicos here that can interpret this stuff? What happens now that it's been amended or if it dosn't get finalized before the Senate adjourns next month?

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquer...arch_type=email

[lapuwali]

California already has the strictest smog laws in the whole country.

Not sure this is a safe statement. AZ has a visual test, too, and they still require a test of all cars back to 1967. No rolling exemption there. Other states have adopted CA smog laws in whole or in part, which is one reason why this issue is actually important to people living in other states besides CA. New Jersey, and I believe New York, both have fairly strict standards. I know at least one person who had to sell an early 70s BMW out of state because they could no longer get it through NJ smog. A number of states have ANNUAL tests, not biannual as in CA, and several have no exemptions for older model years.

CA smog tests are also not uniform across the state. Only a few places have the dyno load tests, and some counties have no testing at all (generally up in the mountains along the eastern border).