SAN ANTONIO – Are you still confused about the Texas Two Step vehicle registration process? You're not alone! Officer Marcus Trujillo clears a few things up.
"Texas Two Step sounds simple enough. Unfortunately the Texas Two Step between the registration and the inspection sticker turned out to be a whole lot more complicated than the actual Two Step dance itself. Here's what you need to remember: according to all the documentation that was sent from the state to all the law enforcement agencies, effective in March the violation of having an expired inspection sticker no longer exists. It's no longer on the books. So if someone tells you that you need to update that inspection sticker immediately or you're going to get a ticket, that infraction of the traffic law no longer exists. However, in order to update your registration you must have a current inspection sticker.
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"Here's where it gets a little tricky. I've heard several complaints from some people that they've gone to update their registration, their inspection sticker still had four or five months of validity and yet they were told at the registration place that they went to that they had to go and get a current registration along with a big 8 1/2 by 11 full size receipt. That information is not 100 percent accurate. According to all the information that was put out by the state, if your inspection sticker is current, then you can register your vehicle even if that means that someone from the DMV has to go outside - someone from the registration office has to go outside to physically look at your sticker. Your best bet is talk to a supervisor. When you go to these places to inspect, you want to make sure you get that full-sized receipt. Here is the issue: a lot of folks are losing their receipt, they go to get their registration, for one reason or another a computer glitch happens - maybe it's human error, and that information is not in the computer for the registration that just happened a day or two previous. Make sure you keep hold of that 8 1/2 by 11 receipt. That's your proof that you have a current inspection sticker under the new system. All that information should have been entered into the computer.
Starting next year (March 1, 2016) you will have a convenient 90-day window to complete both your inspection and registration.
Click here for some of the frequently asked questions about the new registration process.
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