By Serna H.B. No. 3510 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to Clean Air Act inspections. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 382.0622, Health and Safety Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) The commission shall appropriate sufficient money under 1-7 subsection (a)(2) for payments to certified emission testing 1-8 facilities and computerized safety testing facilities to cover 1-9 costs of phone line transmission by the Texas Data Link system of 1-10 vehicle emission testing and safety data. Payments to certified 1-11 facilities are subject to the following: 1-12 (1) Upon receipt of a Texas Data Link bill, the 1-13 commission shall reimburse each certified facility a minimum of $1 1-14 for cash emission test or computerized safety inspection performed; 1-15 (2) Testing facilities under suspension or probation 1-16 by the Department of Public Safety are disqualified from receiving 1-17 funds under this subsection for the duration of the suspension or 1-18 probation; 1-19 (3) The commission shall request the appropriation of 1-20 sufficient money to administer this subsection; 1-21 (4) This subsection takes effect July 1, 1998. 1-22 Expenses incurred before this date are not subject to this 2-1 subsection. 2-2 SECTION 2. The Texas Department of Insurance shall conduct a 2-3 feasibility study of implementing bar codes or data links on 2-4 liability insurance cards for use by safety inspection facilities 2-5 to verify liability insurance. This section shall be effective 2-6 September 1, 1997. The study shall be furnished to the presiding 2-7 officers of the House and Senate on or before January 1, 1999. 2-8 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. The importance of this 2-9 legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both 2-10 houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that 2-11 the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.