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Senate committee considers moving vehicle safety inspections to every two years; staff warn of Clean Air Act implications
Summary
Legislative counsel said the draft DMV bill would shift vehicle safety inspections from annual to biennial and raise the inspection fee; committee members asked for EPA/SIP, fiscal and comparative-state information before scheduling a public hearing.
Legislative counsel Damien Leonard told the Senate Transportation Committee that the draft motor-vehicle bill would move Vermont’s required vehicle safety inspection from once a year to once every two years and raise the per-inspection charge from $8 to $16. Leonard, speaking for the Office of Legislative Counsel, said the move is a “pretty straightforward” textual change but flagged federal and operational complications.
The nut of the debate, Leonard said, is not the statutory language but whether changing inspection frequency could clash with Vermont’s State Implementation Plan (SIP) under the Clean Air Act. “We’ve…
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