By Reyna H.B. No. 625
74R3728 JJT-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance
1-3 program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 382.038(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) A vehicle emissions inspection may be performed at a
1-8 decentralized independent inspection station or at a centralized
1-9 inspection facility operated or licensed by the state. In
1-10 developing the program for vehicle emissions inspections, the board
1-11 shall make all reasonable efforts to establish a system of
1-12 decentralized independent inspection stations. The board shall
1-13 select the most cost-effective and user-friendly scheme for the
1-14 inspection and maintenance program consistent with the requirements
1-15 of the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq.). If
1-16 the board does not establish a decentralized system of independent
1-17 inspection stations for all of the areas of the state included in
1-18 an inspection and maintenance program, the board shall make all
1-19 reasonable efforts to develop a program in which a governmental
1-20 entity in a nonattainment area, as defined by the federal Clean Air
1-21 Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq.), may operate the inspection
1-22 and maintenance program with a system of decentralized independent
1-23 inspection stations <preserve the present decentralized system>.
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.