Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

H.B. 299
                          GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
                                                                                              Mar 15, 2021
                                      SESSION 2021                                      HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK
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                                    HOUSE BILL DRH30156-MW-55
     Short Title:   Emissions/Exempt Lincoln County.                                             (Public)
     Sponsors:      Representative Saine.
     Referred to:
 1                                       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 2   AN ACT TO REMOVE LINCOLN COUNTY FROM THE MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS
 3       INSPECTION PROGRAM.
 4   The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
 5              SECTION 1. G.S. 143-215.107A(c) reads as rewritten:
 6       "(c) Counties Covered. – Motor vehicle emissions inspections shall be performed in the
 7   following counties: Alamance, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth,
 8   Franklin, Gaston, Guilford, Iredell, Johnston, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, New Hanover,
 9   Onslow, Randolph, Rockingham, Rowan, Union, and Wake."
10              SECTION 2. No later than December 31, 2021, the Department of Environmental
11   Quality shall prepare and submit to the United States Environmental Protection Agency for
12   approval by that agency a proposed North Carolina State Implementation Plan amendment based
13   on the change to the motor vehicle emissions testing program provided in this act.
14              SECTION 3. Section 1 of this act becomes effective on the later of the following
15   dates and applies to motor vehicles inspected, or due to be inspected, on or after that effective
16   date:
17              (1)     January 1, 2022.
18              (2)     The first day of a month that is 60 days after the Secretary of the Department
19                      of Environmental Quality certifies to the Revisor of Statutes that the United
20                      States Environmental Protection Agency has approved an amendment to the
21                      North Carolina State Implementation Plan submitted as required by Section 2
22                      of this act. The Secretary shall provide this notice along with the effective date
23                      of this act on its website and by written or electronic notice to emissions
24                      inspection mechanic license holders, emissions inspection station licensees,
25                      and self-inspector licensees in the county where motor vehicle emissions
26                      inspection requirements are removed by this act.
                                    *DRH30156-MW-55*
Statutes affected: 
Filed: 143-215.107A
Edition 1: 143-215.107A