FYI: California SB708

[Adam Rodnitzky <arodnitzky@xxxxxxxxx>]

For those of you interested, here is the reply I
received from Senator Florez' office regarding state
bill 708. As it looks, we may not have to worry after
all!  Here is the relevant part of the text I
received:

...what much of the public does not understand is that
> SB708 is a work in
> progress, and amendments have been written since the
> original version was
> first circulated.  Our bill has two important
> objectives.  First and
> foremost, I want to get the worst gross polluters
> off the road, to  mitigate
> ozone emissions into the air.  Second, I am working
> hard to preserve and
> protect the rights of car owners who keep
> well-maintained older vehicles,
> many of them classic cars, as enacted in SB 42.
> 
> SB708, with our most recent amendments, will require
> vehicles over 30 years
> old which are driven 12,000 or more miles a year to
> get a smog check.  Cars
> which are not used as a primary vehicle, driven on a
> dailty basis, should
> not fall under this definition.  The collector car
> industry representatives
> we have worked with so far agree that this is a fair
> compromise which
> protects collectors and hobbyists, while cutting
> down on auto emissions.
> 
> My staff and I have worked diligently on this issue.
>  We have conducted more
> than 30 hours of meetings on the subject, returned
> hundreds of phone calls
> and collaborated with prominent people within the
> classic car industry -
> even Jay Leno himself.  Steve Davis, one of the
> leaders of the initiative
> that became SB42, has worked closely with our office
> to craft SB708 in a way
> that protects the classic car hobbyist and targets
> only gross polluters.  We
> are confident that the amended SB708 will prevent
> gross polluters from
> taking advantage of SB42 and undermining the purpose
> of the 30-year rolling
> exemption.

Adam
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