{"id":33937,"date":"2024-08-13T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=33937"},"modified":"2024-08-13T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:40:12","slug":"texas-says-goodbye-to-vehicle-inspections-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/33937","title":{"rendered":"Texas says goodbye to vehicle inspections in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, TEXAS: The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) reminds Texans of upcoming changes to the state\u2019s\u00a0vehicle safety inspection program\u00a0that will eliminate most vehicle safety inspections.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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House Bill 3297, which was passed by the 88th<\/sup>\u00a0Legislature and signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott in August 2023,\u00a0abolishes the Vehicle Safety Inspection Program for non-commercial vehicles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Beginning January 1, 2025,\u00a0non-commercial vehicles will no longer need a vehicle safety inspection prior to registration. However, all non-commercial vehicles in the state will be subject to a $7.50 inspection program replacement fee. This fee will be added to your total when you register your vehicle with the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n

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New vehicles (those of the current or preceding model year on the date of purchase) purchased in Texas that have not been previously registered in Texas or another state are required to pay an initial inspection program replacement fee of $16.75 to cover two years.<\/p>\n

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Vehicles registered in emissions counties: while comprehensive vehicle safety inspections will be eliminated for all non-commercial vehicles, Texans whose vehicles are registered in emissions counties will still be required to have emissions tests.<\/p>\n

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Emissions tests are required in major metropolitan areas, including Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris and Montgomery counties; Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall and Tarrant counties; Travis and Williamson counties; and El Paso County.\u00a0Bexar County will be added to the list of counties requiring emissions tests in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Commercial Vehicles: All commercial vehicles in all counties will still be required to obtain a passing vehicle safety inspection.\u00a0Because they will be required to pay for that safety inspection, commercial vehicles will be exempt from the inspection program replacement fee.<\/p>\n

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All vehicles will still need to be registered; the registration process will continue to be managed by the Texas department of motor vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, TEXAS: The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) reminds Texans of upcoming changes to the state\u2019s\u00a0vehicle safety inspection program\u00a0that will eliminate most vehicle safety inspections. House Bill 3297, which was passed by the 88th\u00a0Legislature and signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott in August 2023,\u00a0abolishes the Vehicle Safety Inspection Program for non-commercial vehicles. Beginning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33946,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33937\/revisions\/33946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}