By Horn H.B. No. 2840
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the vehicle inspection and maintenance program.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 382.037, Health & Safety Code, is amended
1-5 by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-6 (c) If the program is established under this section, the
1-7 board:
1-8 (1) shall adopt vehicle emissions inspection and
1-9 maintenance requirements for certain areas as required by federal
1-10 law or regulation; and
1-11 (2) may adopt vehicle emissions inspection and
1-12 maintenance requirements for counties not subject to a specific
1-13 federal requirement in response to a formal request by resolutions
1-14 adopted by the county and the most populous municipality within the
1-15 county according to the most recent federal decennial census.
1-16 (3) may not establish a centralized vehicle inspection
1-17 and maintenance program for any class of vehicles unless
1-18 specifically authorized by the legislature.
1-19 SECTION 3. Section 382.038, Health & Safety Code, is amended
1-20 by amending Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-21 (b) A vehicle emissions inspection shall <may> be performed
1-22 at a decentralized independent inspection station or at a
1-23 decentralized <centralized> inspection facility operated or
2-1 licensed by the state. In developing the program for vehicle
2-2 emissions inspections, the board shall make all reasonable efforts
2-3 to preserve the present decentralized system.
2-4 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.