Brad,
Any change in the emissions limits that are established after the
manufacture date of the car could be defeated due to the constitutional
restriction of "ex post facto" laws.
One of you lawyer types help the man out.
Jeff Howard
Rayne LA
USA
'68 GT6 Now I am the second owner
'69 GT6+
'80 Spit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Eells" <bradlnss@lightspeed.net>
To: "Triumph Team. Net" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:37 AM
Subject: FW: SB708 - Of Interest to California Listers...Long!
> Here is the response I received from Senator Florez regarding Senate Bill
> 708...
>
> Comments...
>
> Brad
> 65 TR4A
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Senator Florez [mailto:Senator.Florez@SEN.CA.GOV]
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:20 AM
> To: Florez, Dean
> Subject: SB708
>
> Thank you for contacting my office and sharing your thoughts on SB708. In
> January of this year, I was appointed Chairman of the Senate Select
> Committee on Air Quality in the Central Valley. To date, the committee
has
> conducted four hearings and nine more are scheduled to be held this year.
> After all the hearings, a report to the legislature will be submitted
> detailing the committee's findings from the hearings.
>
> Why have I undertaken this initiative to clean up our air? Air pollutants
> in the San Joaquin Valley have gone up 17 percent in the last three years
> alone. According to the Los Angeles Times, air pollution is to blame for
> more deaths in the San Joaquin Valley in the last three years than car
> accidents and murders combined. The San Joaquin Valley has surpassed Los
> Angeles as the worst air basin in the state and the second worst in the
> country. The asthma rate for children in Fresno County is the highest in
> California - twice that of Los Angeles and triple the national average.
> Without swift and decisive intervention, this problem promises to escalate
> into a public health crisis, if it isn't already.
>
> In response to this, I have introduced ten bills targeted at cleaning the
> air in the San Joaquin Valley. SB708 is one of those bills.
Unfortunately,
> 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.
>
> I thank you for your input and your willingness to participate in our
> effotrs to clean the San Joaquin Valley air basin.
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