HB 761 — An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in inspection of vehicles, further providing for prohibition on expenditures for emission inspection program.

PRINTER'S NO.   785

                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                             HOUSE BILL
                             No. 761
                                                    Session of
                                                      2025

     INTRODUCED BY HAMM, KAUFFMAN, BERNSTINE, SMITH, GILLEN,
        KENYATTA, ZIMMERMAN, ROWE, COOPER, WALSH AND RIGBY,
        MARCH 3, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 3, 2025


                                         AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in inspection of vehicles, further providing for
 3      prohibition on expenditures for emission inspection program.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.         Section 4706 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
 7   Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
 8   § 4706.    Prohibition on expenditures for emission inspection
 9                   program.
10      * * *
11      (h.1)    Revised State implementation plan.--
12             (1)   Within 60 days of the effective date of this
13      paragraph, the Department of Environmental Protection shall
14      initiate the process of removing the following counties from
15      the enhanced vehicle emission inspection and maintenance
16      program:
17                   (i)    A county of the third class with a population
18             between 215,000 and 216,000 based on the most recent
 1        Federal decennial census.
 2             (ii)    A county of the third class with a population
 3        between 325,000 and 326,000 based on the most recent
 4        Federal decennial census.
 5             (iii)    A county of the third class with a population
 6        between 354,000 and 355,000 based on the most recent
 7        Federal decennial census.
 8             (iv)    A county of the fourth class with a population
 9        between 133,000 and 134,000 based on the most recent
10        Federal decennial census.
11             (v)    A county of the fifth class with a population
12        between 122,000 and 123,000 based on the most recent
13        Federal decennial census.
14             (vi)    A county of the fifth class with a population
15        between 114,000 and 115,000 based on the most recent
16        Federal decennial census.
17             (vii)    A county of the fifth class with a population
18        between 110,000 and 111,000 based on the most recent
19        Federal decennial census.
20        (1.1)     For a county that is not removed from the enhanced
21    vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program through
22    the process initiated under paragraph (1) and prior to the
23    effective date of this paragraph was subject to the enhanced
24    vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program, the
25    Department of Environmental Protection shall initiate the
26    process of removing the county from the enhanced vehicle
27    emission inspection and maintenance program if the Department
28    of Environmental Protection can demonstrate that the county
29    can maintain the relevant standards without benefit of the
30    emissions reductions attributable to the vehicle emission

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 1    inspection and maintenance program.
 2        (2)   The revised State implementation plan shall be
 3    completed and submitted to the United States Environmental
 4    Protection Agency no later than January 1, 2026, and shall
 5    demonstrate that the counties listed under paragraph (1) can
 6    maintain the relevant standards without benefit of the
 7    emissions reductions attributable to the vehicle emission
 8    inspection and maintenance program.
 9        (2.1)     In addition to the revised State implementation
10    plan submitted under paragraph (2), the Department of
11    Environmental Protection shall complete and submit a revised
12    State implementation plan no later than 180 days after
13    initiating the process under paragraph (1.1).
14        (3)     The Department of Environmental Protection shall
15    comply with Federal law during the process of the revisions,
16    including by ensuring that the revisions will not interfere
17    with attainment requirements or reasonable further progress
18    toward attainment, and that Federal funding is not negatively
19    impacted as a result of the revisions.
20        (4)   The Department of Environmental Protection shall
21    notify the following of its submission of a revised State
22    implementation plan, as required to be submitted under this
23    subsection, to the United States Environmental Protection
24    Agency:
25              (i)    The chairperson and minority chairperson of the
26        Environmental Resources and Energy Committee of the
27        Senate.
28              (ii)   The chairperson and minority chairperson of the
29        Environmental and Natural Resource Protection Committee
30        of the House of Representatives.

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 1              (iii)   The chairperson and minority chairperson of
 2        the Transportation Committee of the Senate.
 3              (iv)    The chairperson and minority chairperson of the
 4        Transportation Committee of the House of Representatives.
 5        (5)     Upon approval by the United States Environmental
 6    Protection Agency of a revised State implementation plan, the
 7    Secretary of Environmental Protection shall transmit notice
 8    of the approval to the Legislative Reference Bureau for
 9    publication in the next available issue of the Pennsylvania
10    Bulletin.
11    * * *
12    Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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