By Gutierrez H.B. No. 2794 76R6889 JD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the automation of the compulsory motor vehicle 1-3 inspection system. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 548, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 548.006 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 548.006. AUTOMATION OF INSPECTION PROCEDURES. (a) The 1-8 department shall develop and administer procedures to automate the 1-9 compulsory motor vehicle inspection system under this chapter. 1-10 (b) As a condition of certifying a location as an inspection 1-11 station under this chapter, the department may require the 1-12 applicant to participate in the automated inspection system. 1-13 (c) The automated inspection system developed by the 1-14 department must include password security protection for each 1-15 inspector who accesses the system. As a condition of certifying a 1-16 person as an inspector under this chapter, the department may 1-17 require the applicant to agree that: 1-18 (1) the person's automated password is equivalent, for 1-19 inspection purposes, to the person's written signature; and 1-20 (2) on certification and for all purposes, the person 1-21 is legally responsible for any inspection performed under the 1-22 person's automated password. 1-23 SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 548, Transportation Code, 1-24 is amended by adding Section 548.508 to read as follows: 2-1 Sec. 548.508. FEES FOR AUTOMATED INSPECTION SYSTEM. (a) On 2-2 implementation of the automated inspection system under Section 2-3 548.006: 2-4 (1) in addition to each fee authorized by this 2-5 subchapter, for each safety inspection certificate sold to an 2-6 inspection station participating in the automated system, the 2-7 department may impose an additional fee not to exceed $2; and 2-8 (2) in addition to the fees authorized by Sections 2-9 548.501, 548.503, and 548.504, for each inspection performed under 2-10 this chapter, an inspection station participating in the automated 2-11 system may impose an additional fee not to exceed $2. 2-12 (b) The department may use fees collected under Subsection 2-13 (a)(1) only for the development and administration of the automated 2-14 inspection system under Section 548.006. 2-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-16 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.