1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to compulsory inspection of certain vehicles to be
 1-3     registered and titled outside this state.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 548.052, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 548.052.  VEHICLES NOT SUBJECT TO INSPECTION.  This
 1-8     chapter does not apply to:
 1-9                 (1)  a trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, or mobile
1-10     home moving under or bearing a current factory-delivery license
1-11     plate or current in-transit license plate;
1-12                 (2)  a vehicle moving under or bearing a paper dealer
1-13     in-transit tag, machinery license, disaster license, parade
1-14     license, prorate tab, one-trip permit, antique license, temporary
1-15     24-hour permit, or permit license;
1-16                 (3)  a trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, or mobile
1-17     home having an actual gross weight or registered gross weight of
1-18     4,500 pounds or less;
1-19                 (4)  farm machinery, road-building equipment, a farm
1-20     trailer, or a vehicle required to display a slow-moving-vehicle
1-21     emblem under Section 547.703; [or]
1-22                 (5)  a former military vehicle, as defined by Section
1-23     502.275; or
1-24                 (6)  a vehicle qualified for a tax exemption under
 2-1     Section 152.092, Tax Code [502.275(o)].
 2-2           SECTION 2.  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,
 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2538 was passed by the House on April
         30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2538 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor