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.