Texas’ recent decision to eliminate annual vehicle safety inspections has some auto shop owners in the state worried about how their business will be impacted, reports AOL.

Signed by Gov. Greg Abbott this past August, HB 3297 will not require Texans to have safety inspections performed on their vehicles beginning next year. 

Bill Schwartz owns three shops throughout Austin that offer safety inspections and is concerned with how he will be affected, with one of his businesses specializing in performing 10-minute inspections. While emissions testing will still be required in the state, Schwartz said that the service fee for them needs to be raised to make up for the loss of safety inspections.

“The emission fee needs to go up to somewhere between $20 and $25,” said Schwartz. “In order to make it worthwhile for people like myself to run these businesses and keep these guys employed. And in order to get driver's inspections in a timely and easy manner.”

Besides the harm that could be done to his business and his employees’ livelihood, drivers could also face more obstacles in scheduling emissions tests when they need one done. Additionally, drivers will have to contend with a potential increase in unsafe vehicles sharing the roads, especially in more densely populated areas.

“It was done because the small town folks, legislators from the small towns, thought that it was a big inconvenience, which it is,” stated Schwartz. “However, it's going to cost the lives of Texans.”