BILL NUMBER: AB 823	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hill
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Nestande)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to amend Section 44062.3 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 823, as introduced, Hill. Smog check: vehicle retirement.
    Existing law establishes a motor vehicle inspection and
maintenance (smog check) program, developed, implemented, and
administered by the Department of Consumer Affairs. The duty of
enforcing and administering the program is vested in the Chief of the
Bureau of Automotive Repair within the department. The owner of a
motor vehicle that has failed its most recent smog check inspection
has the right to retire the vehicle from operation at a dismantler
under contract with the Bureau of Automotive Repair, and the
department is required to pay this person up to $1,500, or more if
cost effective.
   This bill would increase this amount to $2,000.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 44062.3 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   44062.3.  The owner of a motor vehicle that has failed its most
recent smog check inspection may retire the vehicle from operation at
a dismantler under contract with the Bureau of Automotive Repair.
The department shall pay a person who retires his or her vehicle
under this section up to  one thousand five hundred dollars
($1,500)   two thousand dollars ($2,000)  . The
department may pay an owner of a motor vehicle who elects to retire
the vehicle more than one thousand five hundred dollars
($1,500)   two thousand dollars ($2,000)  , if the
department determines that this payment is cost effective.