{"data":{"id":"us-ca/hsc-44001.3","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"HSC § 44001.3","heading":"","body":"The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows:\n(a) Under the state’s previous smog check program, a motor vehicle owner could obtain unlimited repair cost waivers and, therefore, avoid repair of a polluting vehicle.\n(b) As a result, many vehicles were reregistered year after year and allowed to continue to pollute the air.\n(c) Repairing high-polluting and gross polluting vehicles (which pollute 2 to 25 times more than the average vehicle that passes a smog check) could significantly improve California air quality and allow the state to meet federal clean air goals.\n(d) The existing repair cost limit for smog repairs is a minimum of four hundred fifty dollars ($450) in all areas where the enhanced smog check program operates; fifty dollars ($50) to three hundred dollars ($300) based on the model year of the vehicle where the enhanced program is not fully implemented; and no cost limit for the repair of gross polluting vehicles.\n(e) Without state financial assistance to repair a vehicle, a low-income vehicle owner is forced to either scrap the vehicle or drive an unregistered vehicle.","path":["Health and Safety Code - HSC","DIVISION 26. AIR RESOURCES [39000. - 44475.3.]","PART 5. VEHICULAR AIR POLLUTION CONTROL [43000. - 44299.91.]","CHAPTER 5. Motor Vehicle Inspection Program [44000. - 44127.]","ARTICLE 1. General [44000. - 44005.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"055a53dbb37cfbaf3f69466d1a6638a7991b42eb8f1966f4ee6cc9a7a0d90e56","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/hsc-44001.1","next":"us-ca/hsc-44001.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}