1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 926
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 19, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
1-5 Nays 0; April 19, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the inspection of certain motor vehicles.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 141, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
1-26 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
1-27 by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
1-28 (c-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (c) of Section 140 of this
1-29 Act and Subsection (c) of this section, a passenger car or light
1-30 truck that is sold in this state, has not been previously
1-31 registered in this or another state, and on the date of sale is of
1-32 the current or the immediately preceding model year is subject to
1-33 an initial inspection that expires at the end of two years. The
1-34 fee for compulsory inspection under this subsection is Nineteen
1-35 Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents ($19.75). The Department shall
1-36 require each official inspection station to make an advance payment
1-37 of Fourteen Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents ($14.75) for a
1-38 certificate to be issued under this subsection. The Department
1-39 shall remit to the comptroller Three Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents
1-40 ($3.75) of each fee for deposit in the Law Enforcement and
1-41 Custodial Officer Supplemental Retirement Fund, Four Dollars
1-42 ($4.00) of each fee for deposit to the credit of an account in the
1-43 General Revenue Fund to be used only for the air quality program of
1-44 the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, and the
1-45 remainder of each fee for deposit to the credit of the Motor
1-46 Vehicle Inspection Fund. No further payment may be required of a
1-47 station for a certificate under this subsection. Refunds for
1-48 unissued certificates shall be made in the same manner as provided
1-49 for other certificate refunds. This subsection does not preclude
1-50 motor vehicle emission inspections from being conducted during an
1-51 initial certification period under this subsection in counties
1-52 covered by a federal Environmental Protection Agency-approved
1-53 inspection and maintenance program pursuant to Subsection (d) of
1-54 Section 142 of this Act and the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.
1-55 Section 7401 et seq.). An inspection station may waive the fee
1-56 otherwise due from the owner of a vehicle inspected under this
1-57 subsection.
1-58 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-59 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-60 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-61 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-62 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-63 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-64 * * * * *
1-65 Austin,
1-66 Texas
1-67 April 19, 1993
1-68 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-1 President of the Senate
2-2 Sir:
2-3 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.B.
2-4 No. 926, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-5 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-6 pass and be printed.
2-7 Rosson,
2-8 Vice-Chairman
2-9 * * * * *
2-10 WITNESSES
2-11 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 926.