By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 926
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the inspection of certain motor vehicles.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 141, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-4  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-5  by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
    1-6        (c-1)  Notwithstanding Subsection (c) of Section 140 of this
    1-7  Act and Subsection (c) of this section, a passenger car or light
    1-8  truck that is sold in this state, has not been previously
    1-9  registered in this or another state, and on the date of sale is of
   1-10  the current or the immediately preceding model year is subject to
   1-11  an initial inspection that expires at the end of two years.  The
   1-12  fee for compulsory inspection under this subsection is Nineteen
   1-13  Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents ($19.75).  The Department shall
   1-14  require each official inspection station to make an advance payment
   1-15  of Fourteen Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents ($14.75) for a
   1-16  certificate to be issued under this subsection.  The Department
   1-17  shall remit to the comptroller Three Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents
   1-18  ($3.75) of each fee for deposit to the credit of the undedicated
   1-19  portion of the General Revenue Fund,  Four Dollars ($4.00) of each
   1-20  fee for deposit to the credit of an account in the General Revenue
   1-21  Fund to be used only for the air quality program of the Texas
   1-22  Natural Resource Conservation Commission, and the remainder of each
   1-23  fee for deposit to the credit of the Motor Vehicle Inspection Fund.
   1-24  No further payment may be required of a station for a certificate
    2-1  under this subsection.  Refunds for unissued certificates shall be
    2-2  made in the same manner as provided for other certificate refunds.
    2-3  This subsection does not preclude motor vehicle emission
    2-4  inspections from being conducted during an initial certification
    2-5  period under this subsection in counties covered by a federal
    2-6  Environmental Protection Agency-approved inspection and maintenance
    2-7  program pursuant to Subsection (d) of Section 142 of this Act and
    2-8  the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq.).  An
    2-9  inspection station may waive the fee otherwise due from the owner
   2-10  of a vehicle inspected under this subsection.
   2-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.