PRINTER'S NO. 1454
No. 1217 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY CASORIO, PETRARCA, BELFANTI, BROWNE, BUNT, DeLUCA,
FABRIZIO, GERGELY, HERMAN, HORSEY, LAUGHLIN, LEH, MARKOSEK,
MELIO, READSHAW, RUFFING, SHANER, SOLOBAY, WASHINGTON,
WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD AND McNAUGHTON, APRIL 21, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 21, 2003
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 Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this chapter or any
12 law to the contrary, neither the department nor any other
13 department or agency of the Commonwealth shall continue or
14 implement any vehicle emission inspection program until the
15 following occurs:
16 (1) The Environmental Protection Agency approves and
17 issues rules and regulations for the use and implementation
18 of on-board vehicle emission diagnostic testing systems that
1 can provide less expensive and more convenient exhaust
2 checks.
3 (2) A joint department and Department of Environmental
4 Protection emission inspection policy review panel issues
5 findings and recommendations for the use and implementation
6 in this Commonwealth of on-board vehicle emission diagnostic
7 testing systems to the Transportation Committee of the Senate
8 and the Transportation Committee of the House of
9 Representatives. Any vehicle emission program currently in
10 effect shall cease immediately until legislative action can
11 occur to implement such findings and recommendations.
12 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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