PRINTER'S NO. 247
No. 221 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY CASORIO, BELFANTI, CALTAGIRONE, DALEY, EACHUS,
FABRIZIO, GABIG, GERGELY, JAMES, LEDERER, MARKOSEK, READSHAW,
SOLOBAY, THOMAS, WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD, PALLONE, PETRARCA
AND REICHLEY, FEBRUARY 8, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 8, 2005
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, imposing a moratorium on the implementation or
3 continued use of a vehicle emission inspection program until
4 certain standards and studies of on-board vehicle emission
5 diagnostic testing systems are completed.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
9 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
10 § 4706.2. Moratorium on emission inspection program.
11 (a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any of the provisions of
12 this chapter or any law to the contrary, all vehicle emission
13 inspection programs shall cease immediately until the following
14 occurs:
15 (1) The Environmental Protection Agency approves and
16 issues rules and regulations for the use and implementation
17 of on-board vehicle emission diagnostic testing systems that
18 can provide less expensive and more convenient exhaust
1 checks.
2 (2) A joint department and Department of Environmental
3 Protection emission inspection policy review panel issues
4 findings and recommendations for the use and implementation
5 in this Commonwealth of on-board vehicle emission diagnostic
6 testing systems to the Transportation Committee of the Senate
7 and the Transportation Committee of the House of
8 Representatives.
9 (3) Such findings and recommendations are enacted into
10 law.
11 (b) Notice.--When the conditions required under subsection
12 (a) are satisfied, the department shall publish a notice thereof
13 in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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