Texas House Bill 3297 repealed the law that mandates annual vehicle inspections, but there are at least 17 counties that will be required to have air emissions inspections. 

The $7.50 fee under the inspections will still go on but under a new name, the "inspection program replacement fee."

New cars or vehicles that had not previously been registered in Texas or another state will have an initial fee of $16.75 which will go towards the Texas mobility fund, general revenue fund and the clean air account.

The counties that will require air emmision tests include Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fort Bend, El Paso, Galveston, Harris, Johnson, Kaufman, Montgomery, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Travis and Williamson counties.

Maverick County will follow the new law and only follow the $7.50 guidelines.

The inspection requirement program had been eliminated by the Federal Government back in 1976, but Texas has been one of the 11 states that had still required annual vehicle safety inspections.