By:  Whitmire                                          S.B. No. 178
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to delay of the vehicle emissions inspection and
    1-2  maintenance program.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 382.037, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows:
    1-6        (o)  Notwithstanding any state agency rule or resolution to
    1-7  the contrary, the vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance
    1-8  program provided for by this section may not begin operation until
    1-9  January 2, 1997.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation
   1-11  Commission shall immediately suspend the operation of any vehicle
   1-12  emissions inspection and maintenance program begun or reinstated
   1-13  under Section 382.037, Health and Safety Code, before the effective
   1-14  date of this Act.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  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,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.