Bill Text: TX HB1175 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the distribution of funds designated for the low-income vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement program.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-02 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB1175 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1175-Introduced.html
| By: Plesa | H.B. No. 1175 | |
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| relating to the distribution of funds designated for the low-income | ||
| vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle | ||
| retirement program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 382, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 382.221 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 382.221. DISTRIBUTION OF LOW-INCOME VEHICLE REPAIR | ||
| ASSISTANCE, RETROFIT, AND ACCELERATED VEHICLE RETIREMENT PROGRAM | ||
| FUNDS. (a) This section applies only to a county that: | ||
| (1) is or was a participating county; and | ||
| (2) has remitted to the state fees collected for the | ||
| low-income vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated | ||
| vehicle retirement program. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Sections 382.202(g), 382.209, and | ||
| 382.220, not later than January 1, 2024, the commission shall | ||
| distribute to the counties described by Subsection (a) all | ||
| available money collected before September 1, 2023, under Section | ||
| 382.202(e) or 382.302 that was designated for the low-income | ||
| vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle | ||
| retirement program and is appropriated by the legislature for the | ||
| purposes described by this subsection. | ||
| (c) The commission shall distribute the money in reasonable | ||
| proportion to the amount of fees collected under Section 382.202(e) | ||
| or 382.302 in those counties or in the regions in which those | ||
| counties are located. | ||
| (d) A county that receives money under this section may use | ||
| the money only to fund a program authorized by Section 382.220(b). | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
