Bill Text: TX HB1031 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to funding for certain roadway projects intended to improve or maintain air quality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-20 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB1031 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1031-Introduced.html
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By: Leach | H.B. No. 1031 |
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relating to funding for certain roadway projects intended to | ||
improve or maintain air quality. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle Z, Title 6, Transportation Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 473 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 473. ROADWAY PROJECTS FOR CLEAN AIR | ||
Sec. 473.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "Account" means the clean air roadway project | ||
account. | ||
(2) "Roadway project" means the construction, | ||
reconstruction, or maintenance of roadway transportation | ||
infrastructure, or the implementation of a roadway transportation | ||
program. | ||
Sec. 473.002. CLEAN AIR ROADWAY PROJECT ACCOUNT. (a) The | ||
clean air roadway project account is an account in the general | ||
revenue fund. The account consists of money transferred to the | ||
credit of the account under Subsections (b) and (c) and the interest | ||
or other returns on investment of money in the account. Section | ||
404.071, Government Code, does not apply to the account. | ||
(b) As soon as practicable after the last day of each | ||
quarter of the state fiscal year, the comptroller shall transfer to | ||
the account from the clean air account an amount equal to one-third | ||
of all the money deposited to the credit of the clean air account | ||
during that preceding quarter other than: | ||
(1) money credited to the clean air account in | ||
accordance with Section 382.051866 or 386.252(a)(10), Health and | ||
Safety Code; or | ||
(2) a gift, grant, or donation credited to the clean | ||
air account. | ||
(c) As soon as practicable after the last day of each | ||
quarter of the state fiscal year, the comptroller shall transfer to | ||
the account from the Texas emissions reduction plan fund an amount | ||
equal to one-third of the money deposited to the credit of the Texas | ||
emissions reduction plan fund during that quarter. | ||
(d) As soon as practicable after the last day of each state | ||
fiscal year, the comptroller shall transfer from the account the | ||
unappropriated and unencumbered balance of the account to the clean | ||
air account and the Texas emissions reduction plan fund. The | ||
comptroller must allocate the total amount transferred under this | ||
subsection so that: | ||
(1) the amount transferred to the clean air account | ||
bears the same proportion to the total amount transferred under | ||
this subsection as the total of the amounts transferred from the | ||
clean air account under Subsection (b) during that preceding fiscal | ||
year bears to the total of the amounts transferred under | ||
Subsections (b) and (c) during that preceding fiscal year; and | ||
(2) the amount transferred to the Texas emissions | ||
reduction plan fund bears the same proportion to the total amount | ||
transferred under this subsection as the total of the amounts | ||
transferred from the Texas emissions reduction plan fund under | ||
Subsection (c) during that preceding fiscal year bears to the total | ||
of the amounts transferred under Subsections (b) and (c) during | ||
that preceding fiscal year. | ||
Sec. 473.003. USE OF ACCOUNT. (a) Money in the account may | ||
be appropriated only to fund roadway projects designed to improve | ||
or prevent the deterioration of ambient air quality. Money in the | ||
account may not be appropriated to fund a toll road. | ||
(b) The department, in consultation with the Texas | ||
Commission on Environmental Quality, shall determine which roadway | ||
projects are eligible to be funded by money appropriated from the | ||
account. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 382.0622(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), Clean Air Act | ||
fees: | ||
(1) shall be deposited in the state treasury to the | ||
credit of the clean air account; and | ||
(2) shall be used to safeguard the air resources of the | ||
state, including through roadway projects under Chapter 473, | ||
Transportation Code. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 382.202(k), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(k) The commission by rule may establish classes of vehicles | ||
that are exempt from vehicle emissions inspections and by rule may | ||
establish procedures to allow and review petitions for the | ||
exemption of individual vehicles, according to criteria | ||
established by commission rule. Rules adopted by the commission | ||
under this subsection must be consistent with federal law. The | ||
commission by rule may establish fees to recover the costs of | ||
administering this subsection. Fees collected under this | ||
subsection shall be deposited to the credit of the clean air | ||
account[ |
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SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |