By Serna                                              H.B. No. 3510

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         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.