By: Middleton S.B. No. 1799
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to revision or elimination of the motor vehicle emissions
inspection and maintenance program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 382, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 382.2015 to read as follows:
Sec. 382.2015. REVIEW OF PROGRAM. (a) The commission
shall:
(1) identify the minimum program required by the
federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq.) for the motor
vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program; and
(2) develop a state implementation plan revision and
necessary rules to revise the motor vehicle emissions inspection
and maintenance program to include only the minimum program.
(b) The commission shall submit the state implementation
plan revision and any rules to the United States Environmental
Protection Agency for approval.
(c) A state implementation plan submitted to the United
States Environmental Protection Agency under this Section shall
require a motor vehicle emissions inspection only at the transfer
of a vehicle title.
(d) If the United States Environmental Protection Agency
approves the plan, the commission shall:
(1) implement the revised program; and
(2) submit to the legislature a list of recommended
statutory changes to facilitate implementing the minimum program,
if any.
(e) Notwithstanding another provision of this chapter or
Chapter 548, Transportation Code, the commission and the Department
of Public Safety may implement a program developed and approved
under this section, and counties may participate in implementing
the program.
SECTION 2. Subchapter G, Chapter 382, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 382.2025 to read as follows:
Sec. 382.2025. ELIMINATION OF PROGRAM. Notwithstanding any
other law, the commission and the Department of Public Safety may
not implement or enforce any other provision of this subchapter or a
requirement under Chapter 548, Transportation Code, related to
emissions inspections.
SECTION 3. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this
section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
(b) Section 2 of this Act takes effect on the 30th day after
the date the United States Congress enacts legislation that becomes
law that repeals the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7401
et seq.) or amends it in a way that the motor vehicle emissions
inspection and maintenance program established under Subchapter G,
Chapter 382, Health and Safety Code, is no longer required. If the
United States Congress does not enact legislation that becomes law
described by this subsection, Section 2 of this Act has no effect.