Tire Business reported, in their July 20, 2008 edition, that the bill to require tire dealers to provide tire age information on sales contracts was quietly withdrawn by its sponsors the day before a California Senate committee was to hold a hearing on it.
Sean Kane, Safety Research & Strategies, Inc President based in Rehoboth, MA., blamed AB 496's withdrawel on the California legislature's need to concentrate on the state's budgetary woes. But the RMA, which opposed the bill, said it was simply the realization by the bill's supporters that they didn't have the votes for passage.
It's detractors said tire age is only one factor in tire performance, and by no means the most important one. The bill would only have made tire dealers sitting ducks for personal injury lawyers.
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