Amend CSSB 5, (House Committee Printing, page 55, line 20)
SECTION 12, by substituting the following language and renumbering
subsequent sections accordingly to read as follows:
      "SECTION 12. Subchapter A, Chapter 548, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 548.006 to read as follows:
      Sec. 548.006.  AUTOMATION OF INSPECTION PROCEDURES. (a)  The
department shall develop and administer procedures to automate the
compulsory motor vehicle inspection system and its compliance and
enforcement under Subchapter (F) of this Chapter and subsection
(h)(3) of this Act.
      (b)  As a condition of certifying a person as an inspection
station under this chapter, the department may require the
applicant to participate in the automated inspection system.
      (c)  The automated inspection system developed by the
department must include asymmetric cryptosystem security protection
or a digital signature for each inspector who accesses the system
and must assure compliance with and enforcement of the system
through technology that provides current data using a remote
process and that can be read using existing or new technologies.
      (d)  As a condition of certifying a person as an inspector
under this chapter, the department may require the applicant to
agree that:
            (1)  the person's asymmetric cryptosystem password or
key or the person's digital signature is equivalent, for inspection
purposes, to the person's written signature; and
            (2)  on certification and for all purposes, the person
is legally responsible for any inspection performed under the
person's asymmetric cryptosystem password or key or under the
person's digital signature.
      (e)  The use of asymmetric cryptosystem security protection
under this section is subject to the criminal laws pertaining to
fraud and computer crimes, including Chapters 32 and 33, Penal
Code.
      (f)  The department may enter into one or more contracts with
another person to implement this section.
      (g)  If the department enters into a contract for the
implementation of the automated inspection system, the contractor
may not disclose to any person, other than the department, data
that is related to the automated inspection system and collected by
the contractor.
      (h)  In this section:
            (1)  "Asymmetric cryptosystem" means a computer-based
system that uses two different but mathematically related keys or
passwords, one of which encrypts a given message and the other of
which decrypts that message, and is designed so that if one key or
password is known, it is computationally infeasible to determine
the other.
            (2)  "Digital signature" has the meaning assigned by
Section 2054.060, Government Code.
            (3)  "Affected county" includes:
                  (A)  Bastrop County;
                  (B)  Bexar County;
                  (C)  Caldwell County;
                  (D)  Comal County;
                  (E)  Ellis County;
                  (F)  Gregg County;
                  (G)  Guadalupe County;
                  (H)  Harrison County;
                  (I)  Hays County;
                  (J)  Johnson County;
                  (K)  Kaufman County;
                  (L)  Nueces County;
                  (M)  Parker County;
                  (N)  Rockwall County;
                  (O)  Rusk County;
                  (P)  San Patricio County;
                  (Q)  Smith County;
                  (R)  Travis County;
                  (S)  Upshur County;
                  (T)  Victoria County;
                  (U)  Williamson County; and
                  (V)  Wilson County.
      (h)  The department by rule shall require a motor vehicle
registered in a county using the automated compulsory motor vehicle
inspection system to be inspected in any county using the same
system.
      SECTION 13. Subchapter H, Chapter 548, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 548.508 to read as follows:
      Sec. 548.508.  FEES FOR AUTOMATED INSPECTION SYSTEM. (a)  In
addition to any other fee authorized by this subchapter, the
department may impose a fee not to exceed $1.00, the fee to be
reduced by 50 cents to 50 cents on September 1, 2007, for each
safety inspection certificate sold to an inspection station located
in a county affected by Section 548.006 to provide funding for the
automated inspection system.
      (b)  In addition to the fees authorized by Sections 548.501,
548.503, and 548.504, for each inspection performed under this
chapter, an inspection station may impose a fee not to exceed the
amount of any fee imposed under Subsection (a).
      (c)  The department shall deposit fees collected under
Subsection (a)  to the credit of the automated inspection system
account.  The automated inspection system account is an account in
the general revenue fund that may be appropriated only to the
department for the development, testing, implementation, and
administration of the automated inspection system under Section
548.006.
      (d)  The Texas Department of Public Safety is hereby
appropriated funds from the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Fund,
fund 151, to automate the compulsory motor vehicle inspection
system.  The sum of $9,750,000 for the fiscal year ending August
31, 2002 and $9,750,000 for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2003
to fund the department to implement testing and enforcement
required by this section."