Phil: Here is the latest from Quentin Kopp on Calif. SB42 status
Bill
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> From: Office SC08 <Senator.Kopp@SEN.CA.GOV>
> To: milward <milward@gte.net>
> Subject: RE: Quentin Kopp's SB42
> Date: Monday, July 21, 1997 11:24 AM
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ontact: Kevin Nguyen
> July 17, 1997 (415) 301-1721
>
> COMMITTEE PULLS AUTO EXEMPTION BILL OVER TO SHOULDER,
> KOPP CALLS FOR ROAD ASSISTANCE
>
> Despite 12,000 letters, Internet messages and petitions
> of support, Senate Bill 42, by Senator Quentin L. Kopp
> (Independent - San Francisco/San Mateo), failed passage late
> yesterday in the State Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 42
> would exempt vehicles 25 or more model years old from
> California's biennial smog check requirement.
>
> Kopp's measure passed by a 33-0 vote in the Senate and a
> 17-0 vote in the Assembly Transportation Committee. In Assembly
> Appropriations, however, a motion to pass SB 42 to the full
> Assembly fell three votes short and was rejected, 8-8. SB 42
> was subsequently placed on the committee's Suspense File, which
> allows Kopp to pursue another vote as soon as late-August.
>
> "I'm disappointed but undeterred by the vote," said
> Kopp. "As proponents and supporters of SB 42, we must now focus
> our attention and redouble our efforts to impress upon the
> Assembly Appropriations Committee members the urgency and
> necessity of this legislation." (The Assembly Appropriations
> Committee can be reached at 916-322-4323, or State Capitol, Room
> 2114, Sacramento, CA 95814.)
>
> The number of affected vehicles is small; the Air
> Resources Board estimates that the bill would exempt
> approximately 400,000 vehicles (or slightly more than 1%) of the
> 23,000,000 registered passenger automobiles in California. The
> bill would affect only those vehicles manufactured from 1966 to
> 1973; pre-1966 vehicles already are excluded from the smog
> check.
>
> "The bureaucrats oppose this commonsense measure not on
> the basis of policy but on the basis of the smog certificate fee
> revenues that would be lost to their programs!" stated Kopp, who
> is Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee.
>
> In addition to attracting national attention from many
> individuals and trade publications, SB 42's official supporters
> include the California State Automobile Associ-ation, numerous
> other car collector clubs and Jay Leno, host of the "Tonight
> Show."
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