Bill Text: TX HB1115 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility for grants for natural gas fueling stations under the Texas natural gas vehicle grant program.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 14-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1115 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1115-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility for grants for natural gas fueling stations under the Texas natural gas vehicle grant program.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 14-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1115 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1115-Introduced.html
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By: Raney | H.B. No. 1115 |
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relating to the eligibility for grants for natural gas fueling | ||
stations under the Texas natural gas vehicle grant program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 394.005(c), Health and Safety Code, as | ||
added by Chapter 892 (S.B. 385), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2011, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) As a condition of receiving a grant, the qualifying | ||
vehicle must be continuously owned, leased, or otherwise | ||
commercially financed and registered and operated in the state by | ||
the grant recipient until the earlier of the fourth anniversary of | ||
the date of reimbursement of the grant-funded expenses or until the | ||
date the vehicle has been in operation for 400,000 miles after the | ||
date of reimbursement. Not less than 75 percent of the annual use | ||
of the qualifying vehicle, either mileage or fuel use as determined | ||
by the commission, must occur in: | ||
(1) the counties any part of which are included in the | ||
area described by Section 394.010(a-1) [ |
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(2) counties designated as nonattainment areas within | ||
the meaning of Section 107(d) of the federal Clean Air Act (42 | ||
U.S.C. Section 7407). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 394.010, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (a) and (d) and adding Subsections | ||
(a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this section, "state highway system" means the | ||
highways in this state included in the plan providing for a system | ||
of state highways prepared by the executive director of the Texas | ||
Department of Transportation under Section 201.103, Transportation | ||
Code. | ||
(a-1) To ensure that natural gas vehicles purchased, | ||
leased, or otherwise commercially financed or repowered under the | ||
program have access to fuel, and to build the foundation for a | ||
self-sustaining market for natural gas vehicles in Texas, the | ||
commission shall award grants to support the development of a | ||
network of natural gas vehicle fueling stations: | ||
(1) along the interstate highways connecting Houston, | ||
San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth; and | ||
(2) along the state highway system in counties | ||
contained wholly or partly in the triangular area described by | ||
Subdivision (1). | ||
(a-2) In awarding the grants, the commission shall provide | ||
for: | ||
(1) strategically placed natural gas vehicle fueling | ||
stations in and between the Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas-Fort | ||
Worth areas to enable a natural gas vehicle to travel in [ |
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that triangular area relying solely on natural gas fuel; | ||
(2) grants to be dispersed through a competitive | ||
bidding process to offset a portion of the cost of installation of | ||
the natural gas dispensing equipment; | ||
(3) contracts that require the recipient stations to | ||
meet operational, maintenance, and reporting requirements as | ||
specified by the commission; and | ||
(4) a listing, to be maintained by the commission and | ||
made available to the public online, of all natural gas vehicle | ||
fueling stations that have received grant funding, including | ||
location and hours of operation. | ||
(d) Stations funded by grants under this section must be | ||
publicly accessible and located not more than three miles from a | ||
highway designated as part of the state highway system or an | ||
interstate highway system. The commission shall give preference | ||
to: | ||
(1) stations providing both liquefied natural gas and | ||
compressed natural gas at a single location; and | ||
(2) stations located not more than one mile from a | ||
highway designated as part of: | ||
(A) the state highway system; or | ||
(B) an interstate highway system. | ||
SECTION 3. Chapter 393, Health and Safety Code, as added by | ||
Chapter 589 (S.B. 20), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2011, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |