Bill Text: TX HB3129 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the exemption of authorized emergency vehicles from vehicle safety inspections.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-13 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB3129 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3129-Introduced.html

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86R5446 TSS-D
By: Middleton H.B. No. 3129

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the exemption of authorized emergency vehicles from
vehicle safety inspections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 548.052, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 548.052. APPLICABILITY [VEHICLES NOT SUBJECT TO
INSPECTION]. (a) This chapter does not apply to:
(1) a trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, or mobile
home moving under or bearing a current factory-delivery license
plate or current in-transit license plate;
(2) a vehicle moving under or bearing a paper dealer
in-transit tag, machinery license, disaster license, parade
license, prorate tab, one-trip permit, vehicle temporary transit
permit, antique license, custom vehicle license, street rod
license, temporary 24-hour permit, or permit license;
(3) a trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, or mobile
home having an actual gross weight or registered gross weight of
7,500 pounds or less;
(4) farm machinery, road-building equipment, a farm
trailer, or a vehicle required to display a slow-moving-vehicle
emblem under Section 547.703;
(5) a former military vehicle, as defined by Section
504.502;
(6) a vehicle qualified for a tax exemption under
Section 152.092, Tax Code; or
(7) a vehicle for which a certificate of title has been
issued but that is not required to be registered.
(b) The vehicle safety inspection requirements of this
chapter do not apply to an authorized emergency vehicle.
SECTION 2. Section 548.510(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A vehicle described by Section 548.052(a)(3)
[548.052(3)] that has an actual gross weight or registered gross
weight of more than 4,500 pounds is subject to a fee in the amount of
$7.50.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.