By: Sanford (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 2604

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019; May 8, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the number of emissions inspections performed by certain vehicle inspection stations.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 548.3075(b), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) A department rule that allows an [a qualified] inspection station to perform a limited emissions inspection of a motor vehicle may not restrict the number of limited emissions [station to fewer than 150] inspections conducted by the station [per month].

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020.

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