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.