By Wohlgemuth                                    H.B. No. 929

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                                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.