By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 926
       73R3261 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the inspection of certain motor vehicles.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 141, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-5  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-6  by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
    1-7        (c-1)  Notwithstanding Subsection (c) of Section 140 of this
    1-8  Act and Subsection (c) of this section, a passenger car or light
    1-9  truck that is sold in this state, has not been previously
   1-10  registered in this or another state, and on the date of sale is of
   1-11  the current or the immediately preceding model year is subject to
   1-12  an initial inspection that expires at the end of two years.  The
   1-13  fee for compulsory inspection under this subsection is Nineteen
   1-14  Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents ($19.75).  The Department shall
   1-15  require each official inspection station to make an advance payment
   1-16  of Fourteen Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents ($14.75) for a
   1-17  certificate to be issued under this subsection.  The Department
   1-18  shall remit to the comptroller Three Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents
   1-19  ($3.75) of each fee for deposit in the Law Enforcement and
   1-20  Custodial Officer Supplemental Retirement Fund, Four Dollars
   1-21  ($4.00) of each fee for deposit to the credit of an account in the
   1-22  General Revenue Fund to be used only for the air quality program of
   1-23  the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, and the
   1-24  remainder of each fee for deposit to the credit of the Motor
    2-1  Vehicle Inspection Fund.  No further payment may be required of a
    2-2  station for a certificate under this subsection.  Refunds for
    2-3  unissued certificates shall be made in the same manner as provided
    2-4  for other certificate refunds.  This subsection does not preclude
    2-5  motor vehicle emission inspections from being conducted during an
    2-6  initial certification period under this subsection in counties
    2-7  covered by a federal Environmental Protection Agency-approved
    2-8  inspection and maintenance program pursuant to Subsection (d) of
    2-9  Section 142 of this Act and the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.
   2-10  Section 7401 et seq.).  An inspection station may waive the fee
   2-11  otherwise due from the owner of a vehicle inspected under this
   2-12  subsection.
   2-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.