1-1     By:  Davis of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Cain)          H.B. No. 2538
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to compulsory inspection of certain vehicles to be
 1-9     registered and titled outside this state.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 548.052, Transportation Code, is amended
1-12     to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 548.052.  VEHICLES NOT SUBJECT TO INSPECTION.  This
1-14     chapter does not apply to:
1-15                 (1)  a trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, or mobile
1-16     home moving under or bearing a current factory-delivery license
1-17     plate or current in-transit license plate;
1-18                 (2)  a vehicle moving under or bearing a paper dealer
1-19     in-transit tag, machinery license, disaster license, parade
1-20     license, prorate tab, one-trip permit, antique license, temporary
1-21     24-hour permit, or permit license;
1-22                 (3)  a trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, or mobile
1-23     home having an actual gross weight or registered gross weight of
1-24     4,500 pounds or less;
1-25                 (4)  farm machinery, road-building equipment, a farm
1-26     trailer, or a vehicle required to display a slow-moving-vehicle
1-27     emblem under Section 547.703; [or]
1-28                 (5)  a former military vehicle, as defined by Section
1-29     502.275; or
1-30                 (6)  a vehicle qualified for a tax exemption under
1-31     Section 152.092, Tax Code [502.275(o)].
1-32           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-37     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-38     passage, and it is so enacted.
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