HB 1354-S2.E2 - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

     Revises air pollution control provisions.

     Requires the department to establish a scientific advisory board to review plans to create or expand an inspection and maintenance system for motor vehicle emissions.

     Exempts from the requirements for emission inspection collector cars as identified by the department of licensing under RCW 46.16.305(1), or beginning January 1, 2000, vehicles that are less than five years old or more than twenty-five years old.

     Directs the department of ecology to evaluate changes to the motor vehicle emission inspection program made in RCW 46.16.015(2)(j) and other options that meet air quality objectives and lessen the effect of the program on the motorist.  The department shall consider air quality, program costs, and motorist convenience in its evaluation and make recommendations for changes to the program to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature by January 1, 1999.