California kills the Jay Leno Smog release bill

From Ryan SabalowCalmness

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Jay Leno’s star force was not enough to convince the legislative committee in California to adopt a measure that would allow the owners of classical cars like him to be released from the strict state requirements for the smog.

The Committee on Budget Loans of the Assembly on Friday blocks Bakersfield’s Republican Seni. Shannon Groves Senate Bill 712 by progress for full vote. Leno had testified in support of the Sacramento measure earlier this yearS

Commission members and its powerful democratic chairman, member of the Assembly Buffy Wicks From Oakland, it did not provide the reason for the murder of the bill during the hearing on Friday, which quickly and with a few fanfare announced the fate of 260 other bills that were laid in the so -called “Commission Dossier”. Seventy -other bills were also killed without explanation.

Senate and Assembly Budget Committees, which they both met on Friday and rejected hundreds of accountsit is assumed that they are goalkeepers for accounts offering to spend money on taxpayers. But the committee files are there Hundreds of political touching accounts die quietly every year Just a few internal faces who know the real reasons.

However, civil servants have warned the committee that the proposal can potentially cost the money of the state, and the influential environmental organizations of the state have opposed.

Asked why the committee killed the measure, Wix told reporters after hearing, “I’ll have to go back and look. I can’t remember.”

Grove said she was “deeply disappointed that once again the legislation of California did not prioritize the classical culture of cars in California and the enthusiasts who relying on the measure to pass.”

“Unfortunately, today California said” no “to help preserve these movable pieces of history and to launch classic car clubs in the state from Lowriders, to hot bars and any American classic between them,” she said in a statement.

The proposal, which Grove called “Leno’s Law” after the former presenter and comedian of the talk show on a late night, would release the owners of classic cars produced before 1981 to have to pay to tested emissions every two years in a certified car store. Classic cars would also be released from passing SMOG tests at the time of purchase.

The exceptions could only be applied to vehicles with special registration plates “Historic vehicle” and would need to be insured as a “collector’s motor vehicle”.

Jay Leno testifies this spring

Leno, the owner of nearly 200 classic carsHe told the Senate Transport Committee in April that the headline of a classic car built before modern emission standards is the main barrier to owning one in California.

With a modern car is “Turn on, take your money – boom – get out. It’s very fast to get a Smog check with a modern car”, “” Leno saidS “It’s not impossible for an old car, but it’s complicated. It takes time and often causes a fee of four, five, six times more than an ordinary car.” Leno said the classic car owners are struggling to even find a shop with the equipment needed to test them.

Before Friday, the bill, which had 19 Republican and four democratic co -authors, had passed the full Senate and his only other meeting committee with only a handful of progressive democratic MPs who voted against him.

Proponents included numerous California car clubs and the California Association of Automobile Traders. But the clean air and environmental groups, as well as the Association of Air Pollution Pollution Company and the California Air Control Association opposed, according to Calmatters Database of digital democracyS

State regulators have also warned that the measure can cost the car repair office, which runs the State SMOG testing program and the Ministry of Motor Vehicles hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Officials have quoted fears that this will reduce the revenue from the fees for inspection of the SMOG and license fees for vehicles.

In addition, he could potentially cost the $ 1.2 million California Air Resources Council to hire new staff to collect updated air quality models and to review federally needed pollution reduction plans, according to the Budget Credit Committee analysis.

Wix, in his introductory remarks at the beginning of the hearing on Friday, said the state was needed to recover costs.

“Obviously, we still have a huge amount of budget restrictions,” Wix said. “We have to guarantee that we serve our most vulnerable people in our communities and make sure we do our best to put our best leg for a strong social security network.”

SalMatters policy reporter Yue Stella Yu contributed to this storyS

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