1-1     By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 391
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 2001; January 29, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 7, 2001, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 2; March 7, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                           By:  Armbrister
 1-7           Amend S.B. No. 391, in Section 2 of the bill, in added
 1-8     Section 548.508(c), Transportation Code (page 2, line 26), between
 1-9     "development," and "implementation", by inserting "testing,".
1-10     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 2                           By:  Armbrister
1-11           Amend S.B. No. 391, in Section 1 of the bill, in added
1-12     Section 548.006(a), Transportation Code (page 1, line 35), between
1-13     "system" and "under", by inserting "and its compliance and
1-14     enforcement".
1-15     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 3                           By:  Armbrister
1-16           Amend S.B. No. 391, in Section 1 of the bill, in added
1-17     Section 548.006(c), Transportation Code (page 1, line 41), between
1-18     "system" and the period, by inserting "and must assure compliance
1-19     with and enforcement of the system through technology that provides
1-20     current data using a remote process and that can be read using
1-21     existing or new technologies".
1-22     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 4                            By:  Shapleigh
1-23           Amend S.B. No. 391, in Section 548.508 (page 2, line 14), by
1-24     inserting the following after "$1.25":  ", the fee to be reduced by
1-25     50 cents to 75 cents on September 1, 2005,".
1-26                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-27                                   AN ACT
1-28     relating to the automation of the compulsory motor vehicle
1-29     inspection system.
1-30           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-31           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 548, Transportation Code,
1-32     is amended by adding Section 548.006 to read as follows:
1-33           Sec. 548.006.  AUTOMATION OF INSPECTION PROCEDURES.  (a)  The
1-34     department shall develop and administer procedures to automate the
1-35     compulsory motor vehicle inspection system under this chapter.
1-36           (b)  As a condition of certifying a person as an inspection
1-37     station under this chapter, the department may require the
1-38     applicant to participate in the automated inspection system.
1-39           (c)  The automated inspection system developed by the
1-40     department must include asymmetric cryptosystem security protection
1-41     or a digital signature for each inspector who accesses the system.
1-42           (d)  As a condition of certifying a person as an inspector
1-43     under this chapter, the department may require the applicant to
1-44     agree that:
1-45                 (1)  the person's asymmetric cryptosystem password or
1-46     key or the person's digital signature is equivalent, for inspection
1-47     purposes, to the person's written signature; and
1-48                 (2)  on certification and for all purposes, the person
1-49     is legally responsible for any inspection performed under the
1-50     person's asymmetric cryptosystem password or key or under the
1-51     person's digital signature.
1-52           (e)  The use of asymmetric cryptosystem security protection
1-53     under this section is subject to the criminal laws pertaining to
1-54     fraud and computer crimes, including Chapters 32 and 33, Penal
1-55     Code.
1-56           (f)  The department may enter into one or more contracts with
1-57     another person to implement this section.
 2-1           (g)  In this section:
 2-2                 (1)  "Asymmetric cryptosystem" means a computer-based
 2-3     system that uses two different but mathematically related keys or
 2-4     passwords, one of which encrypts a given message and the other of
 2-5     which decrypts that message, and is designed so that if one key or
 2-6     password is known, it is computationally infeasible to determine
 2-7     the other.
 2-8                 (2)  "Digital signature" has the meaning assigned by
 2-9     Section 2054.060, Government Code.
2-10           SECTION 2.  Subchapter H, Chapter 548, Transportation Code,
2-11     is amended by adding Section 548.508 to read as follows:
2-12           Sec. 548.508.  FEES FOR AUTOMATED INSPECTION SYSTEM.  (a)  In
2-13     addition to any other fee authorized by this subchapter, the
2-14     department may impose a fee not to exceed $1.25 for each safety
2-15     inspection certificate sold to an inspection station to provide
2-16     funding for the automated inspection system required by Section
2-17     548.006.
2-18           (b)  In addition to the fees authorized by Sections 548.501,
2-19     548.503, and 548.504, for each inspection performed under this
2-20     chapter, an inspection station may impose a fee not to exceed the
2-21     amount of any fee imposed under Subsection (a).
2-22           (c)  The department shall deposit fees collected under
2-23     Subsection (a) to the credit of the automated inspection system
2-24     account.  The automated inspection system account is an account in
2-25     the general revenue fund that may be appropriated only to the
2-26     department for the development, implementation, and administration
2-27     of the automated inspection system under Section 548.006.
2-28           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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