By Telford                                            H.B. No. 2415
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to vehicle inspection stations in contiguous states.
    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 (a-2) to read as follows:
    1-7        (a-2)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section, the
    1-8  Department may establish state-appointed inspection stations in a
    1-9  location outside of the state, but only within the city limits of a
   1-10  city which is contiguous with a boundary of this state, and which
   1-11  is also contiguous with a boundary of a city in this state, both of
   1-12  which cities have the same name.  Such stations may be appointed
   1-13  only in a state which has a similar provision for licensing of its
   1-14  inspection stations in this state.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.