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.