By SEMA Editors

The SEMA Show delivers quality buyers with the power to make or influence buying decisions.

Downloadable 2019 SEMA Show exhibitor brochures are available at www.SEMAShow.com/why-exhibit. The brochure contains facts about buyer activity at the Show, a breakdown and preview of the Show's halls and the Show sections within, a list of booth sizes and pricing, and all the contact information that exhibitors will need to enhance your company's experience. 

The SEMA Show delivers quality buyers with the power to make or influence buying decisions. While seeking new products remains the main reason buyers visit the SEMA Show, SEMA research reveals that buyers are motivated to attend the Show to accomplish several goals. According to the SEMA Show Post-Show Survey, 87% of buyers visit the Show looking for new products, and 78% use the experience to get new ideas. Rounding out the survey, 72% of buyers attend the Show to identify and stay aware of trends; 65% use the Show to find new vendors; and 60% of buyers attend the Show to see existing customers and vendors. 

For more information about the 2019 SEMA Show, visit www.SEMAShow.com.

To secure booth space for the 2019 SEMA Show, visit www.SEMAShow.com/buyabooth.

To secure hotel rooms with guaranteed low rates, visit www.SEMAShow.com/travel.

By Washington, D.C., Staff

Legislation (S.B. 2338) in West Virginia to provide antique military vehicles an exemption from the requirement to display license plates passed the House and is currently awaiting consideration in the Senate Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.  The bill creates an alternative registration insignia that does not interfere with the traditional military markings on the vehicle.

For more information, visit https://www.semasan.com/legislative-alerts/west-virginia/update-west-virginia-bill-preserve-antique-military-vehicles.

For details, contact Christian Robinson at stateleg@sema.org.

By Washington, D.C., Staff

Legislation (S.B. 333) in West Virginia to exempt antique vehicles and classic cars from personal property taxes passed the Senate and now awaits consideration in the House Technology and Infrastructure Committee. In West Virginia, an antique vehicle is defined as a vehicle that is 25 years old and older and owned solely as a collector’s item. A classic car is defined as a vehicle that is 25 years old and older and registered annually as an everyday vehicle and used for general transportation.

For more information, visit https://www.semasan.com/legislative-alerts/west-virginia/update-west-virginia-bill-exempt-antique-vehicles-property-tax.

For details, contact Christian Robinson at stateleg@sema.org.

By Washington, D.C., Staff

Legislation (H.B. 5391) has been introduced in the Rhode Island House of Representatives to extend inspection exemptions to motor vehicles for their first five model years.  Current law does not make any exemption for new vehicles. The bill is currently in the House Committee on Finance.

For more information, visit https://www.semasan.com/legislative-alerts/rhode-island/rhode-island-introduces-bill-extend-emissions-inspection-waiver.

For details, contact Christian Robinson at stateleg@sema.org.

By Washington, D.C., Staff

A version of SEMA model legislation (H.B. 39) to ease the process by which replica cars are titled and registered has been introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives.  The bill defines replica car as a motor vehicle that is constructed, assembled or modified as to replicate the make, model and model year of a motor vehicle that is at least 25 years old. Currently, there is no specific registration and titling class for replicas.

The bill is currently awaiting consideration in the House Transportation and Public Safety Committee.

For more information, visit https://www.semasan.com/legislative-alerts/ohio/ohio-introduces-legislation-ease-titling-and-registration-replica-cars.

For details, contact Christian Robinson at stateleg@sema.org.

By Washington, D.C., Staff

Legislation (S.F. 179) in Minnesota to aid the registration of certain decommissioned military vehicles as standard motor vehicles passed the Veterans and Military Affairs Finance and Policy Division and now awaits consideration on the Senate floor. A collector military vehicle is currently defined as a vehicle at least 20 years old, originally manufactured for the U.S. Armed Forces, and operated solely as a collector’s vehicle.

For more information, visit https://www.semasan.com/legislative-alerts/minnesota/update-minnesota-bill-aid-registration-decommissioned-military.

For details, contact Christian Robinson at stateleg@sema.org.

By Washington, D.C., Staff

Legislation (L.D. 821/H.P. 587) has been introduced in the Maine State Legislature to allow vehicles at least 15 model years old to be exempt from needing a certificate of title or certificate of salvage to register the vehicle. Under current law, only vehicles model-year 1995 or older are exempt from titling requirements. The bills currently await consideration in the Joint Committee on Transportation.

For more information, visit https://www.semasan.com/legislative-alerts/maine/maine-introduces-bills-further-exempt-older-vehicles-titling-requirements.

For details, contact Christian Robinson at stateleg@sema.org.

By Washington, D.C., Staff

Legislation (L.D. 821/H.P. 587) has been introduced in the Maine State Legislature to allow vehicles at least 15 model years old to be exempt from needing a certificate of title or certificate of salvage to register the vehicle. Under current law, only vehicles model-year 1995 or older are exempt from titling requirements. The bills currently await consideration in the Joint Committee on Transportation.

For more information, visit https://www.semasan.com/legislative-alerts/maine/maine-introduces-bills-further-exempt-older-vehicles-titling-requirements.

For details, contact Christian Robinson at stateleg@sema.org.

By Washington, D.C., Staff

Legislation (L.D. 822/H.P. 596) has been introduced in Maine to prohibit the sale of motor fuel with greater than 10% ethanol.  The bills currently await consideration in the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.

For more information, visit https://www.semasan.com/legislative-alerts/maine/maine-bills-limit-ethanol-sales-introduced.

For details, contact Christian Robinson at stateleg@sema.org.

By Washington, D.C., Staff

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed a comprehensive public lands bill that packaged over 100 public lands, natural resources and water bills into a single measure. Senator Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) bipartisan “Natural Resources Management Act” (S. 47) passed both houses of Congress by wide margins and has been sent to President Trump for consideration. 

SEMA strongly supports the bill’s inclusion of the “California Desert Protection and Recreation Act,” which permanently designates six existing OHV areas, including Johnson Valley (expanded by 11,000 acres), Spangler Hills, El Mirage, Rasor, Dumont Dunes and Stoddard Valley.  The provision was sponsored by Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and would protect more than 200,000 acres of off-highway vehicle recreation areas in San Bernardino County. It also expands wilderness designations in the California desert, although it prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from closing any roads or trails that are currently open for motorized recreational access.

S. 47 also includes a provision to permanently designate federal lands within Emery County, Utah. While it would protect most existing OHV routes within the 217,00-acre San Raphael Swell, several trails were lost despite the efforts of SEMA and the off-road community. In total, the bill designates 617,000 acres of U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands as wilderness in the area.

Additional provisions in the public lands bill include:

• Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF): The bill permanently authorizes the U.S. Treasury Department to collect funds from oil and gas leases and to deposit those revenues into the LWCF.  The bill also includes important reforms that will continue to expand recreational access to federal lands.
• National Monuments: S. 47 designates four new national monuments totaling just 1,750 acres of federal land.
• New Wilderness Designations: S. 47 designates roughly 700,000 acres of federal wilderness in California, Oregon and New Mexico. Most of the land was already designated as a Wilderness Study Area (WSA), a National Monument or an Area of Critical Environmental Concern, and treated as de facto wilderness.
• Release of Federal Wilderness Study Areas: The bill releases 168,000 acres of land from the WSA designation, restoring multiple-use access to these lands.

For more information, contact Eric Snyder at erics@sema.org.