SENATE AMENDED
        PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3972                      PRINTER'S NO. 4591

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No. 2666 Session of 2004

        INTRODUCED BY McCALL, GEIST, BIANCUCCI, CORRIGAN, CURRY, DALEY,
           DeLUCA, DENLINGER, DeWEESE, FABRIZIO, FAIRCHILD, FREEMAN,
           GEORGE, GILLESPIE, GODSHALL, GOOD, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARPER,
           HERMAN, HORSEY, LAUGHLIN, R. MILLER, O'NEILL, READSHAW,
           SCAVELLO, SCHRODER, SCRIMENTI AND GERGELY, JUNE 7, 2004

        SENATOR MADIGAN, TRANSPORTATION, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED,
           NOVEMBER 8, 2004

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     2     Statutes, further providing for period of registration AND     <--
     3     FOR THE PROHIBITION ON EXPENDITURES FOR EMISSION INSPECTION
     4     PROGRAM.

     5     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     6  hereby enacts as follows:
     7     Section 1.  Section 1307(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania    <--
     8  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     9     SECTION 1.  SECTIONS 1307(A) AND 4706(D) OF TITLE 75 OF THE    <--
    10  PENNSYLVANIA CONSOLIDATED STATUTES ARE AMENDED TO READ:
    11  § 1307.  Period of registration.
    12     (a)  Staggered renewal system to be established.--The
    13  department shall establish a system of staggered registration
    14  renewal in a manner that an approximately equal number of
    15  registrations will expire every month throughout the year. [This
    16  system shall be coordinated with the periodic inspection of all

     1  vehicles which are subject to annual inspection except those
     2  vehicles bearing dealer registration plates.] In order to
     3  implement and maintain the staggered registration system, the
     4  department may prorate annual registration fees over
     5  registration periods of from 6 to 18 months.
     6     * * *
     7  § 4706.  PROHIBITION ON EXPENDITURES FOR EMISSION INSPECTION      <--
     8             PROGRAM.
     9     * * *
    10     [(D)  COORDINATION WITH VEHICLE REGISTRATION.--WHENEVER A
    11  SYSTEM FOR THE PERIODIC INSPECTION OF EMISSIONS OR EMISSION
    12  SYSTEMS IS ESTABLISHED AS AUTHORIZED IN SUBSECTIONS (B) AND
    13  (B.1), SUCH INSPECTION OF EMISSIONS OR EMISSION SYSTEMS SHALL BE
    14  COORDINATED WITH THE VEHICLE REGISTRATION PERIOD.]
    15     * * *
    16     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.










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