By Wohlgemuth H.B. No. 929 75R2574 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a study of the potential consolidation of the state's 1-3 motor vehicle registration and inspection procedures. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Texas Department of Transportation and the 1-6 Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas shall conduct a 1-7 joint study on the potential consolidation of the state's motor 1-8 vehicle registration and inspection procedures in a manner that 1-9 will allow state residents to complete periodic registration and 1-10 inspection requirements as part of a single process. The study 1-11 must address: 1-12 (1) changes that must be made in each procedure to 1-13 allow them to be combined; 1-14 (2) the manner in which distribution of registration 1-15 fees between the counties and the state may be maintained; 1-16 (3) oversight of the carrying out of the consolidated 1-17 procedures by vehicle inspectors; 1-18 (4) transition from the current separate procedures to 1-19 the consolidated procedures; and 1-20 (5) other issues the departments consider appropriate. 1-21 SECTION 2. Before December 1, 1998, the departments shall 1-22 submit to the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of 1-23 representatives a report of the results of their study and their 1-24 recommendations concerning the consolidation of state motor vehicle 2-1 registration and inspection procedures. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.