New California Emissions Law proposed.

[KaptKaos]

In case you haven't heard, there is a Senate bill working its way through Sacramento that will change the emissions testing rules to exclude pre-1981 cars from testing.

If you're in favor, please make some calls and send some emails.

Please don't PARF this up about the merits of this potential law. Thx.

Link: California Introduces Bill to Exempt pre-1981 Vehicles From Emissions Inspection Requirement - Hot Rod Magazine Blog

Text:

California Introduces Bill to Exempt pre-1981 Vehicles From Emissions Inspection Requirement
Written by: Glen Wilkinson on March 15 2012 11:10 AM

In 2004, legislation was enacted to repeal California’s rolling emissions-test exemption for vehicles 30 years old and older and replace it with a law requiring the lifetime testing of all 1976 and newer model-year vehicles. This year, a bill has been introduced in the California Senate (S.B. 1224) by Senator Doug LaMalfa (Senator.LaMalfa@senate.ca.gov ) to exempt all motor vehicles prior to the 1981 model year from the emissions inspection requirement. The bill will be considered in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee on March 27, 2012.

We Urge You to Contact All Members of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee (Contact Info Below) Immediately To Request Their Support for S.B. 1224

S.B. 1224 recognizes the minimal impact of pre-1981vehicles on emissions and air quality.
S.B. 1224 acknowledges that pre-1981 vehicles still constitute a minuscule portion of the overall vehicle population and are a poor source from which to look for emissions reduction.
S.B. 1224 endorses the fact that pre-1981 vehicles are overwhelmingly well-maintained and infrequently driven (a fraction of the miles each year as a new vehicle).
For years, legislators, regulators and stationary source polluters have felt the heat from failed efforts to meet air quality goals and have looked to older cars as a convenient scapegoat, using false data and inflated annual mileage assumptions to further their case. S.B. 1224 helps validate the truth. The old car hobby should not continue to carry the burden of past mistakes!
DON’T DELAY! Please contact members of the California Senate Transportation and Housing Committee immediately to request their support of S.B. 1224. Please e-mail a copy of your letter to Steve McDonald at stevem@sema.org. Also, please forward this Alert to your fellow car enthusiasts. Urge them to join the SAN and help defend the hobby! Thank you for your assistance.

Senate Transportation and Housing Committee

To e-mail all members of the Committee, copy and paste the email address block below:

senator.desaulnier@sen.ca.gov; senator.gaines@senate.ca.gov; senator.harman@sen.ca.gov; Senator.Kehoe@sen.ca.gov; Senator.Lowenthal@sen.ca.gov; senator.pavley@sen.ca.gov; michael.rubio@sen.ca.gov; senator.simitian@sen.ca.gov; Senator.Wyland@senate.ca.gov

Senator Mark DeSaulnier (Chair)
Phone: (916) 651-4007
Email: senator.desaulnier@sen.ca.gov

Senator Ted Gaines (Vice Chair)
Phone: (916) 651-4001
Email: senator.gaines@senate.ca.gov

Senator Tom Harman
Phone: (916) 651-4035
Email: senator.harman@sen.ca.gov

Senator Christine Kehoe
Phone: (916) 651-4039
Email: Senator.Kehoe@sen.ca.gov

Senator Alan Lowenthal
Phone: (916) 651-4027
Email: Senator.Lowenthal@sen.ca.gov

Senator Fran Pavley
Phone: (916) 651-4023
Email: senator.pavley@sen.ca.gov

Senator Michael Rubio
Phone: (916) 651-4016
Email: michael.rubio@sen.ca.gov

Senator Joe Simitian
Phone: (916) 651-4011
Email: senator.simitian@sen.ca.gov

Senator Mark Wyland
Phone: (916) 651-4038
Email: Senator.Wyland@senate.ca.gov



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[Jim Richards]

I want to see them exclude cars that are 1993 or older.

[vash]

my car is a friggen 81!! when will i ever get to spend my SSI money?

[SeanPizzle]

just posted it to Sen. Gaines Facebook wall. I also recently sent him a not about these mobile "surprise" smog check points that we are subjected to. recockulous

[red-beard]

I think the old law with the rolling exemption was better. Make it a 30 year rolling exemption.

[mikester]

I agree with James but I'm pretty skeptical that this has a snowball's chance in you know where...

[Tobra]

This will never pass. I will write Senator Gaines a letter about it though, was just at his office last week.

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by red-beard

I think the old law with the rolling exemption was better. Make it a 30 year rolling exemption.

people can put that in their letters too (at some risk of clogging the legislative "system")

be sure write a rational letter - point out how clean the air is getting (from cars anyway)

how this will help out the poor (unless you are sure your person cares about "rich" Porsche owners)

and how the rise in hybrids and BEVs means that air quality will continue to improve even with this change

even if does not pass (this time) the input can serve as a base for the next time

[McLovin]

The state would lose the smog test revenue that it generates from all those 81 and earlier cars. Which, at this point, is the only reason for keeping a law in place that requires smog tests for 35+ year old cars.

The people supporting the bill should change it so that whatever the state's cut of the smog test fee is ($10-$20?), still gets paid by the car owner. So, the car doesn't need to be smogged, but the state still gets its shakedown money.

That money can be designated to a fund to study the effects of smog on quail eggs, or to study some bogus "green energy" nonsense. That will make the bill more palatable (or even irresistible), to the nuts that would otherwise oppose it.

[skunked]

It would be interesting to know how many cars fall into this 5 year window.

I can't imagine it being anymore than 5% of the cars tested annually in CA.

[RWebb]

mcglovin - try to keep your PARF posts over there & not over here

[slodave]

Nooooooo! Rolling exemption is better. My '84 will never be an '81.

[Noah930]

I emailed the senator who wrote the bill to ask why not just reinstate the 30-yr rolling exemptions yesterday.

[Tobra]

Mr La Malfa is a Republican, this bill has no chance.

[Joe Bob]

Already a thread on this.....

[homer944]

Another reason to not live in CA

[Brando]

I, too, would like to see the 30-year rolling exemption. But let's be rational here: Will the state (which is bankrupt) be OK letting that miniscule smog-test money go away? Even though the number of 1976-1981 vehicles still registered in CA and operated on the road is miniscule, the state demands that money.

And who is to say that the Air Quality Management bureaus across the state will honor the law when they can't even follow their own rules in regards to older vehicle testing?

[SeanPizzle]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Mr La Malfa is a Republican, this bill has no chance.

Unfortunately, you speaketh the truth.

[Joe Bob]

AQMD's regulate stationary sources....The state of CA regulates other sources with, while trains and boat are considered stationary but not planes....go figure...

The Fed's regulating NEW 'other than stationary sources'....once upon a time, CA was able to impose stricter regs on new stuff.....the Feds, said Fuch it and used their regs on all 50 states....