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      By Madden                                       H.B. No. 3111

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to vehicle inspection fees.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 548.501, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-5     to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 548.501.  Inspection Fees Generally.  (a)  Except as

 1-7     provided by Sections 548.503 and 548.504, the fee for inspection of

 1-8     a motor vehicle other than a moped is $10.50.  The fee for

 1-9     inspection of a moped is $5.75.  The fee for a verification form

1-10     issued as required by Section 548.256 is $1.

1-11           (b)  An inspection station shall pay to the department $3.50

1-12     [$5.50] of each fee for an inspection.  The department may require

1-13     the station to make an advance payment of $3.50 [$5.50] for each

1-14     inspection certificate provided to the station.  If advance payment

1-15     is made:

1-16                 (1)  no further payment may be required on issuance of

1-17     a certificate;

1-18                 (2)  the inspection station may waive the fee due from

1-19     the owner of an inspected vehicle who is issued a certificate to

1-20     which the advance payment applies;

1-21                 (3)  the department shall refund to the inspection

1-22     station $3.50 [$5.50] for each unissued certificate that the

1-23     station returns to the department in accordance with department

1-24     rules. [; and]

 2-1                 [(4)  the conservation commission shall pay to the

 2-2     department $2 for each unissued certificate that the station

 2-3     returns to the department.]

 2-4           SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 382.0622, Health and

 2-5     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

 2-6           Sec. 382.0622.  Clean Air Act Fees.  (a)  Clean Air Act fees

 2-7     consist of[: (1)] fees collected by the commission under Sections

 2-8     382.062, 382.0621, and 382.037 and as otherwise provided by law. [;

 2-9     and]

2-10                 [(2)  $2 of each advance payment collected by the

2-11     Department of Public Safety for inspection certificates for

2-12     vehicles other than mopeds under Section 141(c), Uniform Act

2-13     Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil

2-14     Statutes).]

2-15           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY CLAUSE.  The importance of this

2-16     legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both

2-17     houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that

2-18     the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-21     passage, and it is so enacted.