Calif Bill to Exempt pre-1981 Vehicles From emissions test

[98MustGT]

California Introduces Bill to Exempt pre-1981 Vehicles From Emissions Inspection Requirement

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 ([email protected] ) 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 [email protected]


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:

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Individual Contact Information

Senator Mark DeSaulnier (Chair)
Phone: (916) 651-4007
Email: [email protected]

Senator Ted Gaines (Vice Chair)
Phone: (916) 651-4001
Email: [email protected]

Senator Tom Harman
Phone: (916) 651-4035
Email: [email protected]

Senator Christine Kehoe
Phone: (916) 651-4039
Email: [email protected]

Senator Alan Lowenthal
Phone: (916) 651-4027
Email: [email protected]

Senator Fran Pavley
Phone: (916) 651-4023
Email: [email protected]

Senator Michael Rubio
Phone: (916) 651-4016
Email: [email protected]

Senator Joe Simitian
Phone: (916) 651-4011
Email: [email protected]

Senator Mark Wyland
Phone: (916) 651-4038
Email: [email protected]

[98MustGT]

The vote will be on April 10

[Schmalgar]

A hard date is so totally un-necessary. How many cars over 30 years old will ever be on the roads? The paltry amounts of gas those vehicles will account for is always going to be such a small fraction of a percentage of the total. It can't be worth the time and effort and expense of making owners work on them to meet current regulations. Hopefully common sense will prevail on this vote...

[GTP231]

Hey Toyota needs a way to have the battery creation process pollution for the Prius overlooked
I agree though 30 is plenty acceptable. Lots of states its arouund 25 I think

[REVNORR82]

This would piss me off when I lived in California I had a 76 chevy that was a chore to get it to pass emissions and now you might not have to BASTARDS!!!

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[Schmalgar]

Hey Toyota needs a way to have the battery creation process pollution for the Prius overlooked

Yeah the automakers have done a terrific marketing job with the hybrids, on keeping people from realizing how much pollution and waste is caused in the battery creation process. They have made the masses see nothing other than 'uses less gas, is wonderful for the environment'...

[SMWS6TA]

It will never pass. Too many tree hugging, anti meat eater, man-bear-pig loving, enviro wackos in the state that will kill the bill.

[98MustGT]

I think it will pass here is why.

Calif is getting rid of the "sniffer test" and replacing it by plugging into OBD-II port.

Well older cars have no port to plug into.

[Smittro]

Sniffer is still used on OBD1 cars.. What will they do there?

So glad in PA if you're under 5k driven miles per year you're exempt from testing..

[SeVeReDiStOrTiOn]

I think it will pass here is why.

Calif is getting rid of the "sniffer test" and replacing it by plugging into OBD-II port.

Well older cars have no port to plug into.

Where did you hear that?