2025 bills / S.B. 222
S.B. 222 Vehicle Emission Inspection Program Revisions (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill lets the Motor Vehicle Division revoke a vehicle's registration if the owner used a false or improper address to avoid an emissions inspection. It also bars the Division from registering a vehicle while the owner has an unpaid civil penalty for that address violation, and lets the State Tax Commission recover its investigation and administration costs.
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Official description
- allows the Motor Vehicle Division to revoke the vehicle owner's registration if the vehicle owner has provided a false or an improper address to register a vehicle to avoid an emissions inspection
- prohibits the Motor Vehicle Division from registering a motor vehicle if the owner of the motor vehicle has failed to pay a civil penalty for registering with a false or improper address
- allows the State Tax Commission to recover costs of investigation or administration
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 222 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 222 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 2 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how