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.)
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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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