Bill Text: TX HB2136 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to marine vessel projects in the diesel emissions reduction incentive program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB2136 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2136-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to marine vessel projects in the diesel emissions reduction incentive program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB2136 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2136-Introduced.html
87R3049 SLB-F | ||
By: Thompson of Brazoria | H.B. No. 2136 |
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relating to marine vessel projects in the diesel emissions | ||
reduction incentive program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 386.104(c) and (c-1), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, for a | ||
proposed project as described by Section 386.102(b), [ |
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percent of vehicle miles traveled or hours of operation projected | ||
for the five years immediately following the award of a grant must | ||
be projected to take place in a nonattainment area or affected | ||
county of this state. The commission may set the minimum percentage | ||
of vehicle miles traveled or hours of operation required to take | ||
place in a nonattainment area or affected county at a percentage and | ||
for a period that is different from the percentage and period | ||
specified by this subsection, provided that the commission may not | ||
set the minimum percentage at a level that is less than 55 percent. | ||
The commission may allow vehicle travel on highways and roadways, | ||
or portions of a highway or roadway, designated by the commission | ||
and located outside a nonattainment area or affected county to | ||
count towards the percentage of use requirement in this subsection. | ||
(c-1) For a proposed project involving a marine vessel or | ||
engine, not less than 25 percent of the hours of operation projected | ||
for the five years immediately following the award of a grant must | ||
be projected to take place in: | ||
(1) [ |
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intercoastal waterways or bays; or | ||
(2) the waters of the Gulf of Mexico within 15 miles of | ||
the coast of this state [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |