The Texas legislature has abolished the state mandated annual vehicle inspections beginning next year, but you will still have to pay the same $7.50 inspection fee, because no government ever gives up a tax or fee.
Of course, that will change if democrats ever succeed in their dream of turning Texas back into a democrat controlled state, and even if they don't, the democrats can and will do whatever they want the next time there is a democrat president and the democrats control both houses of Congress.
Yea the.emissions is only in counties that do not meet Federal clean air criteria. Those counties will still have emissions testing it’s a federal level thing not state level. There won’t be a safety inspection but there will still be the annual OBDII scan and systems check that’s mandated by the EPA the state has no say on it. You will still pay the $7.50 emissions scan fee and must submit to it. The exhaust scanners don’t care what county your vehicle is registered in if it detects a out of compliance vehicle it sends a summons even in none emissions counties here again it’s federal level emissions the state just enforces it or they lose all highway funding.