Bill Text: TX HB1344 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the Texas emissions reduction plan fund, including the establishment and use of the non-road diesel subaccount.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB1344 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1344-Introduced.html

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86R6057 JRR-D
By: Thompson of Brazoria H.B. No. 1344

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Texas emissions reduction plan fund, including the
establishment and use of the non-road diesel subaccount.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 386.251(c), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) The fund consists of:
(1) the amount of money deposited to the credit of the
fund under:
(A) Section 386.056;
(B) Section [Sections 151.0515 and] 152.0215,
Tax Code; and
(C) Sections 501.138, 502.358, and 548.5055,
Transportation Code; and
(2) grant money recaptured under Section 386.111(d)
and Chapter 391.
SECTION 2. Section 386.252, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section,
money in the fund, other than money in the non-road diesel
subaccount established under Section 386.253, may not be used for a
purpose described by Section 386.253(c).
SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 386, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 386.253 to read as follows:
Sec. 386.253. NON-ROAD DIESEL SUBACCOUNT; USE OF
SUBACCOUNT. (a) The non-road diesel subaccount is established in
the fund.
(b) The subaccount consists of the amount of money deposited
to the credit of the subaccount under Section 151.0515, Tax Code.
Interest earned on the subaccount shall be credited to the
subaccount.
(c) Money in the subaccount may be used only to:
(1) provide grants for non-road diesels, as that term
is described by Section 386.101, under a program established under
the plan; and
(2) implement and administer a program described by
Subdivision (1), but only to the extent that the program relates to
the issuance of grants for non-road diesels.
SECTION 4. Sections 151.0515(c) and (d), Tax Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(c) The surcharge shall be collected at the same time and in
the same manner and shall be administered and enforced in the same
manner as the tax imposed under this chapter. The comptroller shall
adopt any additional procedures needed for the collection,
administration, and enforcement of the surcharge authorized by this
section and shall deposit all remitted surcharges to the credit of
the non-road diesel subaccount in the Texas emissions reduction
plan fund.
(d) This section expires on the last day of the state fiscal
biennium during which the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
publishes in the Texas Register the notice required by Section
382.037, Health and Safety Code [August 31, 2019].
SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act to Section
151.0515, Tax Code, applies only to a surcharge collected on or
after the effective date of this Act. A surcharge collected before
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect
immediately before that date, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect August 30, 2019.