BILL NUMBER: SB 1389	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1389, as introduced, Padilla. Air pollution: motor vehicle
inspection.
   Existing law authorizes the owner of a motor vehicle that has
failed its most recent smog check inspection to retire the vehicle
from operation at a dismantler under contract with the Bureau of
Automotive Repair, and requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to
pay this person up to $1,500 or more, as specified.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
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).
The department may pay  an   the  owner of
a motor vehicle who elects to retire the vehicle more than one
thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), if the department determines
that this payment is cost effective.