By Hamric                                              H.B. No. 507
       74R3472 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to delay of the vehicle emissions inspection and
    1-3  maintenance program.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 382.037, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows:
    1-7        (o)  Notwithstanding any state agency rule or resolution to
    1-8  the contrary, the vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance
    1-9  program provided for by this section may not begin operation until
   1-10  January 2, 1997.  This subsection also applies to implementation of
   1-11  that program by the Texas Department of Transportation under this
   1-12  section or under Section 2, Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the
   1-13  41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-2,
   1-14  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or Section 3, Chapter 88, General
   1-15  Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
   1-16  (Article 6675a-3, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or by the Public
   1-17  Safety Commission under Section 142, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic
   1-18  on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation
   1-20  Commission, the Texas Department of Transportation, and the Public
   1-21  Safety Commission shall immediately suspend the operation of any
   1-22  vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program begun under
   1-23  Section 382.037, Health and Safety Code, and implemented under that
   1-24  section, under Section 2, Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the
    2-1  41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-2,
    2-2  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or Section 3, Chapter 88, General
    2-3  Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
    2-4  (Article 6675a-3, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or under Section
    2-5  142, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d,
    2-6  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), before the effective date of this
    2-7  Act.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.