'Leno's Law': Talk show host headed to Sacramento in support of smog check exemption bill

(FOX40.COM) — A measure to destruct smog checks for immoderate classical cars is making its mode done the legislature with the assistance of celebrated car enthusiast Jay Leno.

Collector centrifugal vehicles that are astatine slightest 35 years aged are presently exempt from portions of smog cheque tests but Assembly Bill 712, introduced by Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), would bash distant with the request for the vehicles to beryllium tested biennially oregon erstwhile transferred to a caller owner.

California instrumentality defines a "collector centrifugal vehicle" arsenic 1 owned by a collector that is "used chiefly successful shows, parades, charitable functions, and humanities exhibitions for display, maintenance, and preservation, and is not utilized chiefly for transportation."

"These classical cars are infrequently driven, cautiously maintained, and marque up lone a fraction of cars connected the road. They are typically owned for their humanities value and collector value," Grove's bureau said. "Exempting them from the biennial smog cheque would fortify California’s 'car culture' by helping sphere these humanities treasures."

According to Grove's office, long-time speech amusement big Jay Leno volition enactment successful an lawsuit connected Tuesday astatine the authorities capitol successful enactment of AB 712 anterior to its proceeding aboriginal that day.

The measure has immoderate bipartisan enactment including from Senate Transportation Committee Chair Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Vally) who is simply a co-author of the bill.

The measure has besides garnered immoderate opposition, including from the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association which says that driving older cars a comparatively tiny magnitude passim 1 twelvemonth contributes much aerial contamination than a caller car mightiness lend implicit its lifespan.

"...California Air Resources Board information shows a caller 1982 rider car has astir 97 times higher NOx emissions than a caller 2025 exemplary twelvemonth rider car," the radical said. "In the existent calendar year, assuming the 1982 conveyance complies with Smog Check, it would emit astir 123 times the NOx emissions of a 2025 rider car... Assuming the 1982 car is driven conscionable 3,000 miles a year, astatine 123 times the NOx emissions, it is equivalent to a 2025 rider car being driven 369,000 miles a year."