SEMA is supporting a bill in the Oklahoma Legislature to reduce the annual registration fee for vehicles 25 years old and older to $5. Under current law, these vehicles are assessed at a rate of $15 per year.

A SEMA-supported bill in the West Virginia Legislature to provide owners of antique motor vehicles with a reduced personal property tax assessment has been passed by the Roads and Transportation Committee.

SEMA again helped turn back legislation in the Washington Legislature that would have implemented a vehicle scrappage program for passenger vehicles more than 15-years old.

Legislation that would have expanded the definition of “abandoned motor vehicle” to include vehicles that were left unattended for more than six hours on private property without valid plates, title or permit will not be considered in the 2010 legislative session.

A substitute bill to ban the use of most aftermarket exhaust systems has been introduced in the Utah Legislature and passed by the Senate Transportation Committee.

Under the SEMA-supported bill, vehicles four years old or newer would be exempt from Maryland's mandatory test requirements.

One of the biggest challenges facing off-road enthusiasts is the closure of public lands to motorized recreation. Read this guide to decode the lingo in Washington's land-use laws.

SEMA is supporting Iowa legislation to allow any antique motor vehicle to be registered as a “limited-use” antique vehicle for an annual fee of $5.

The Kansas State Legislature has introduced legislation that would allow cities to enforce “nuisance abatement” procedures—often used to force removal of inoperable vehicles—by notifying affected property owners by use of first-class mail instead of certified mail (with a return receipt).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tightened the one-hour standard for measuring emissions of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) but left the annual standard unchanged.