I thought california people on this list might be
interested in this posting from the 750/101 list.
> Here we go again! As predicted, legislation has
been reintroduced
in the California Assembly to repeal the state's
current rolling emissions
test exemption for vehicles 30 years old and older.
A.B. 2683 repeals the
current pro-hobbyist exemption and replaces it with
a provision requiring
the permanent testing of all pre-1976 vehicles.
This year, the bill was
introduced by California State Assemblywoman Sally
> Lieber (D-District 22).
Actually, unless I'm reading the text of the bill wrong--quite
possible--the bill proposes to change the scope of the law by
exempting all pre-1975 vehicles. This does away with the rolling
exemption for vehicles that have reached 30 years of age, but doesn't
attempt to work backwards, which some proposals have called for.
Assemblywoman Lieber seems to have learned from last year's
legislative session that wording a bill in such a way as to require
testing of cars manufactured all the way back to the beginning of
time included vehicles manufactured before there were emission
standards. In that sense, this bill is conceived more intelligently;
however, it's going to going to piss off those folks who were eagerly
looking forward to that 30-year cutoff.