Introduced
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To prohibit pre-2007 diesel trucks over 14,000 lbs., buses, school buses, and construction equipment from being operated unless their motors are replaced or retrofitted to standards mandated by the California Air Resources Board, subject to a $5,000 per day fine for violations. The bill essentially replicates a California law, and among other things would mandate annual truck smoke and tampering inspections with a $40 fee; authorize taxpayer subsidies for diesel retrofits; impose a new tax on leases of diesel farm or construction equipment; impose a truck-idling limit of five minutes in any hour (subject to a $750 fine); registration of all diesel engines over 50 horsepower including farm tractors; and much more. This would all apply only to trucks registered or garaged in Michigan, not ones just passing through.
Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform
