Amend CSSB 1588 (senate committee report) by striking all below the enacting clause and substituting the following:
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter B, Chapter 548, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER B. VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT SUBJECT TO INSPECTION AND REINSPECTION IN CERTAIN COUNTIES
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 548.051, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 548.051. VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT SUBJECT TO INSPECTION IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.
SECTION 3. Section 548.051, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) This section applies only to a vehicle registered in a county that is:
(1) located on the Texas-Mexico border and adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico;
(2) adjacent to a county described by Subdivision (1); or
(3) adjacent to a county described by Subdivision (2) and has a population of not more than 5,000.
SECTION 4. Section 548.101, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 548.101. GENERAL [ONE-YEAR] INSPECTION PERIOD. (a) Except as provided by Section 548.102, the department shall require an annual inspection for a vehicle subject to a safety inspection under Section 548.051.
(b) The department shall require an inspection for a vehicle subject to an emissions inspection under Subchapter F, as provided by Section 382.202(d), Health and Safety Code.
(c) The department shall set the periods of inspection and may make rules with respect to those periods. The rules must provide that:
(1) a vehicle owner may obtain an inspection not earlier than 90 days before the date of expiration of the vehicle's registration; and
(2) a used motor vehicle sold by a dealer, as defined by Section 503.001, must be inspected in the 180 days preceding the date the dealer sells the vehicle.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect January 1, 2018.