In a message dated 97-07-30 19:01:38 EDT, you write:
NO WAY! It needs our support more than ever. It was suspended by the full
appropriations committee where they didn't get enuf votes to pass it. 8 to 8.
It's suspended till late Aug. They don't want to give up the smog fees!
Below is a message from Kopp and another update. Please write/call many times
to support SB42 or we won't get it.
Sandi
To: jensen-cars@british-steel.org (Jensen Cars)
Item Subject: RE: REQUEST SUPPORT FOR SB 42
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: 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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Date: 97-07-30 19:01:38 EDT
From: elmo@inreach.com (Larry Moeller)
Sender: owner-vintage-race@autox.team.net
Reply-to: Larry Moeller <elmo@inreach.com>
To: 914@porschefans.com
CC: mgs@autox.team.net vintage-race@autox.team.net
Note from a friend:
SB 42. Seems to be cruising through. Says its on the suspense
file for a committee whose initials I don't recognize, but must be
toward
the end as its been through a bunch with no opposition. Suspense file I
have learned means that it will be passed as a consent item unless some
one raises a fuss-- and I am told that that is rare. Sooooo--looks good >>
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