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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, First Regular Session
AMENDED
FACT SHEET FOR H.B. 2104
minerals; land inventory; technical correction
(NOW: emissions; voluntary vehicle repair; timeline)
Purpose
Adds, to the criteria allowing a vehicle owner to participate in the Voluntary Vehicle Repair
Program (VVRP), that the vehicle owner repair the vehicle not more than 60 days after acceptance
into the VVRP. Extends the Waste Tire Fund (Fund) and Program from January 1, 2026, to January
1, 2029.
Background
The Director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) must
administer a comprehensive annual or biennial Vehicle Emissions Inspections Program to require
the inspection of vehicles in Arizona. The Director of ADEQ must operate and administer the
VVRP in areas that are subject to the Vehicle Emissions Inspections Program. The VVRP must
provide quantifiable emissions reductions and operate and administer the VVRP in cooperation
with the county that provides up to $900 to vehicle owners who qualify for the VVRP and pay a
$100 copayment. A vehicle owner can participate in the VVRP if the following statutory criteria
are met: 1) the owner is willing to participate; 2) the vehicle being repaired is functionally
operational; 3) the vehicle being repaired is titled in Arizona; 4) the vehicle being repaired has
failed the Emissions Inspection Test and the owner of the vehicle applied to the VVRP not more
than 60 days after failing; 5) the vehicle being repaired has been registered during the immediately
preceding 12 months and has not been unregistered for more than 60 days; 6) the emissions control
system has not been tampered with; and 7) the emissions control system has not been removed or
disabled in whole or in part. Participation in the VVRP is limited to one vehicle per owner and
motor homes, motor cycles and salvage and fleet vehicles are not eligible to participate (A.R.S. §§
49-542 and 49-558.02)
Each county must establish a waste tire program and submit a waste tire management plan
to ADEQ for review and approval. A waste tire program may: 1) develop a plan to manage waste
tires in the county; 2) construct or operate or contract for the construction or operation of a waste
tire processing facility and purchase equipment for the facility; 3) contract for a waste tire
processing facility service; 4) remove or contract for the removal of waste tires from the county or
other region; 5) establish waste tire collection centers at solid waste disposal facilities or waste tire
processing facilities; and 6) develop an accounting system for the waste tire managed with monies
from the Fund (A.R.S. § 44-1305).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
FACT SHEET – Amended
H.B. 2104
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Provisions
1. Adds, to the criteria to participate in the VVRP, that the vehicle owner must repair the vehicle
not more than 60 days after acceptance into the VVRP.
2. Removes the criteria for ADEQ to administer the VVRP in cooperation with the county as
outlined.
3. Removes failing any random roadside vehicle test conducted by the state from the criteria that
allows diesel powered motor vehicles with a gross vehicle rating of more than 8,500 pounds
that are subject to the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program eligible for up to $1,000 in repair
costs from the VVRP.
4. Extends the Fund and Waste Tire Program from January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2029.
5. Renames the VVRP from the Voluntary Vehicle Repair and Retrofit Program to the VVRP.
6. Defines owner.
7. Contains a conditional enactment clause.
8. Makes technical and conforming changes.
9. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Amendments Adopted by the Natural Resources Committee
• Extends the Fund and Waste Tire Program until January 1, 2029.
House Action Senate Action
NREW 2/18/25 DPA/SE 10-0-0-0 NR 3/25/25 DPA 6-0-2
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Read 3/10/25 50-6-4
Prepared by Senate Research
March 26, 2025
SB/SN/slp