By Horn                                               H.B. No. 2722
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to vehicles repaired under the vehicle 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 & Safety Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows:
    1-7        (o)(1)  The board shall not restrict any person from
    1-8  repairing a vehicle which has failed a vehicle emissions test; or
    1-9              (2)  require vehicles to be tested by certified
   1-10  mechanics.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house by suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.