CONCORD — Onboard diagnostic testing for vehicles and air quality provisions would be eliminated from state vehicle inspections by 2027, and for the first three years of a new car’s life, it could skip motor vehicle inspections entirely under an amendment to the budget agreed to Friday by the Senate Finance Committee.
Budget writers on both sides of the aisle agreed to the idea that Sen. Howard Pearl (R-Loudon) offered which he called a “down the middle approach” to an issue which is “important to constituents.”
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