Does my county require an emissions test?
Pick the county where your vehicle is registered. The answer is for gasoline vehicles 2 through 24 years old; electric vehicles, diesels, motorcycles and mopeds are not tested anywhere in Texas.
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All 254 Texas counties
Seventeen counties require the test, plus Bexar County from November 1, 2026. County list: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb. Program counties and fees: TCEQ and Texas DPS.
| County | Emissions test for registration | Station fee (max) |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson | No | — |
| Andrews | No | — |
| Angelina | No | — |
| Aransas | No | — |
| Archer | No | — |
| Armstrong | No | — |
| Atascosa | No | — |
| Austin | No | — |
| Bailey | No | — |
| Bandera | No | — |
| Bastrop | No | — |
| Baylor | No | — |
| Bee | No | — |
| Bell | No | — |
| Bexar | Yes, from Nov 1, 2026 | $18.50 |
| Blanco | No | — |
| Borden | No | — |
| Bosque | No | — |
| Bowie | No | — |
| Brazoria | Yes | $18.50 |
| Brazos | No | — |
| Brewster | No | — |
| Briscoe | No | — |
| Brooks | No | — |
| Brown | No | — |
| Burleson | No | — |
| Burnet | No | — |
| Caldwell | No | — |
| Calhoun | No | — |
| Callahan | No | — |
| Cameron | No | — |
| Camp | No | — |
| Carson | No | — |
| Cass | No | — |
| Castro | No | — |
| Chambers | No | — |
| Cherokee | No | — |
| Childress | No | — |
| Clay | No | — |
| Cochran | No | — |
| Coke | No | — |
| Coleman | No | — |
| Collin | Yes | $18.50 |
| Collingsworth | No | — |
| Colorado | No | — |
| Comal | No | — |
| Comanche | No | — |
| Concho | No | — |
| Cooke | No | — |
| Coryell | No | — |
| Cottle | No | — |
| Crane | No | — |
| Crockett | No | — |
| Crosby | No | — |
| Culberson | No | — |
| Dallam | No | — |
| Dallas | Yes | $18.50 |
| Dawson | No | — |
| Deaf Smith | No | — |
| Delta | No | — |
| Denton | Yes | $18.50 |
| DeWitt | No | — |
| Dickens | No | — |
| Dimmit | No | — |
| Donley | No | — |
| Duval | No | — |
| Eastland | No | — |
| Ector | No | — |
| Edwards | No | — |
| El Paso | Yes | $11.50 |
| Ellis | Yes | $18.50 |
| Erath | No | — |
| Falls | No | — |
| Fannin | No | — |
| Fayette | No | — |
| Fisher | No | — |
| Floyd | No | — |
| Foard | No | — |
| Fort Bend | Yes | $18.50 |
| Franklin | No | — |
| Freestone | No | — |
| Frio | No | — |
| Gaines | No | — |
| Galveston | Yes | $18.50 |
| Garza | No | — |
| Gillespie | No | — |
| Glasscock | No | — |
| Goliad | No | — |
| Gonzales | No | — |
| Gray | No | — |
| Grayson | No | — |
| Gregg | No | — |
| Grimes | No | — |
| Guadalupe | No | — |
| Hale | No | — |
| Hall | No | — |
| Hamilton | No | — |
| Hansford | No | — |
| Hardeman | No | — |
| Hardin | No | — |
| Harris | Yes | $18.50 |
| Harrison | No | — |
| Hartley | No | — |
| Haskell | No | — |
| Hays | No | — |
| Hemphill | No | — |
| Henderson | No | — |
| Hidalgo | No | — |
| Hill | No | — |
| Hockley | No | — |
| Hood | No | — |
| Hopkins | No | — |
| Houston | No | — |
| Howard | No | — |
| Hudspeth | No | — |
| Hunt | No | — |
| Hutchinson | No | — |
| Irion | No | — |
| Jack | No | — |
| Jackson | No | — |
| Jasper | No | — |
| Jeff Davis | No | — |
| Jefferson | No | — |
| Jim Hogg | No | — |
| Jim Wells | No | — |
| Johnson | Yes | $18.50 |
| Jones | No | — |
| Karnes | No | — |
| Kaufman | Yes | $18.50 |
| Kendall | No | — |
| Kenedy | No | — |
| Kent | No | — |
| Kerr | No | — |
| Kimble | No | — |
| King | No | — |
| Kinney | No | — |
| Kleberg | No | — |
| Knox | No | — |
| La Salle | No | — |
| Lamar | No | — |
| Lamb | No | — |
| Lampasas | No | — |
| Lavaca | No | — |
| Lee | No | — |
| Leon | No | — |
| Liberty | No | — |
| Limestone | No | — |
| Lipscomb | No | — |
| Live Oak | No | — |
| Llano | No | — |
| Loving | No | — |
| Lubbock | No | — |
| Lynn | No | — |
| Madison | No | — |
| Marion | No | — |
| Martin | No | — |
| Mason | No | — |
| Matagorda | No | — |
| Maverick | No | — |
| McCulloch | No | — |
| McLennan | No | — |
| McMullen | No | — |
| Medina | No | — |
| Menard | No | — |
| Midland | No | — |
| Milam | No | — |
| Mills | No | — |
| Mitchell | No | — |
| Montague | No | — |
| Montgomery | Yes | $18.50 |
| Moore | No | — |
| Morris | No | — |
| Motley | No | — |
| Nacogdoches | No | — |
| Navarro | No | — |
| Newton | No | — |
| Nolan | No | — |
| Nueces | No | — |
| Ochiltree | No | — |
| Oldham | No | — |
| Orange | No | — |
| Palo Pinto | No | — |
| Panola | No | — |
| Parker | Yes | $18.50 |
| Parmer | No | — |
| Pecos | No | — |
| Polk | No | — |
| Potter | No | — |
| Presidio | No | — |
| Rains | No | — |
| Randall | No | — |
| Reagan | No | — |
| Real | No | — |
| Red River | No | — |
| Reeves | No | — |
| Refugio | No | — |
| Roberts | No | — |
| Robertson | No | — |
| Rockwall | Yes | $18.50 |
| Runnels | No | — |
| Rusk | No | — |
| Sabine | No | — |
| San Augustine | No | — |
| San Jacinto | No | — |
| San Patricio | No | — |
| San Saba | No | — |
| Schleicher | No | — |
| Scurry | No | — |
| Shackelford | No | — |
| Shelby | No | — |
| Sherman | No | — |
| Smith | No | — |
| Somervell | No | — |
| Starr | No | — |
| Stephens | No | — |
| Sterling | No | — |
| Stonewall | No | — |
| Sutton | No | — |
| Swisher | No | — |
| Tarrant | Yes | $18.50 |
| Taylor | No | — |
| Terrell | No | — |
| Terry | No | — |
| Throckmorton | No | — |
| Titus | No | — |
| Tom Green | No | — |
| Travis | Yes | $11.50 |
| Trinity | No | — |
| Tyler | No | — |
| Upshur | No | — |
| Upton | No | — |
| Uvalde | No | — |
| Val Verde | No | — |
| Van Zandt | No | — |
| Victoria | No | — |
| Walker | No | — |
| Waller | No | — |
| Ward | No | — |
| Washington | No | — |
| Webb | No | — |
| Wharton | No | — |
| Wheeler | No | — |
| Wichita | No | — |
| Wilbarger | No | — |
| Willacy | No | — |
| Williamson | Yes | $11.50 |
| Wilson | No | — |
| Winkler | No | — |
| Wise | No | — |
| Wood | No | — |
| Yoakum | No | — |
| Young | No | — |
| Zapata | No | — |
| Zavala | No | — |
The official wording
Dallas-Fort Worth Program Area: Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, and Tarrant Counties
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Program Area: Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, and Montgomery Counties
Austin Area: Travis and Williamson Counties
El Paso Area: El Paso County
San Antonio Area: Bexar County (beginning on November 1, 2026)
Motorists with vehicles registered in Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, El Paso, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Johnson, Kaufman, Montgomery, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Travis, and Williamson Counties will not be eligible to renew their vehicle's annual registration if the vehicle has not passed its annual emissions inspection or complied with the vehicle emissions inspection program requirements.
Gasoline vehicles model-year 2 through 24 years old are inspected annually beginning with the vehicle's second anniversary.
Not required to inspect: electric vehicles, diesel vehicles, motorcycles, and mopeds.
As of January 1, 2025, non-commercial vehicles are no longer required to obtain a safety inspection prior to vehicle registration
Inspection Replacement Fee $7.50
Sec. 548.511. VEHICLES NOT SUBJECT TO INSPECTION PROGRAM REPLACEMENT FEE. Section 548.510 does not apply to:
(11) a vehicle that will move under or bear 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; or
The county that counts is the county of registration. Some cities straddle a program-county line: see cities on a county line. To add up the fees, use the fee calculator.
Sources
- TCEQ, Vehicle Emissions Inspections in Texaspage as published Sep 23, 2026 (archived copy), read Oct 6, 2026
- TxDMV, Register Your Vehicleread Oct 6, 2026
- Texas Legislature, H.B. No. 3297 (88th Legislature), enrolled versionpage as published Jun 11, 2026 (archived copy), read Oct 6, 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Texas counties