Bill Text: TX HB2815 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of energy storage systems or technologies used wholly or partly as a facility, device, or method for the control of air pollution.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-04 - No action taken in committee [HB2815 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2815-Introduced.html
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| By: Taylor of Galveston | H.B. No. 2815 | |
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| relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of energy | ||
| storage systems or technologies used wholly or partly as a | ||
| facility, device, or method for the control of air pollution. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11.31, Tax Code, is amended by amending | ||
| Subsection (k) and adding Subsection (k-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (k) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall | ||
| adopt rules establishing a nonexclusive list of facilities, | ||
| devices, or methods for the control of air, water, or land | ||
| pollution, which must include: | ||
| (1) coal cleaning or refining facilities; | ||
| (2) atmospheric or pressurized and bubbling or | ||
| circulating fluidized bed combustion systems and gasification | ||
| fluidized bed combustion combined cycle systems; | ||
| (3) ultra-supercritical pulverized coal boilers; | ||
| (4) flue gas recirculation components; | ||
| (5) syngas purification systems and gas-cleanup | ||
| units; | ||
| (6) enhanced heat recovery systems; | ||
| (7) exhaust heat recovery boilers; | ||
| (8) heat recovery steam generators; | ||
| (9) superheaters and evaporators; | ||
| (10) enhanced steam turbine systems; | ||
| (11) methanation; | ||
| (12) coal combustion or gasification byproduct and | ||
| coproduct handling, storage, or treatment facilities; | ||
| (13) biomass cofiring storage, distribution, and | ||
| firing systems; | ||
| (14) coal cleaning or drying processes, such as coal | ||
| drying/moisture reduction, air jigging, precombustion | ||
| decarbonization, and coal flow balancing technology; | ||
| (15) oxy-fuel combustion technology, amine or chilled | ||
| ammonia scrubbing, fuel or emission conversion through the use of | ||
| catalysts, enhanced scrubbing technology, modified combustion | ||
| technology such as chemical looping, and cryogenic technology; | ||
| (16) if the United States Environmental Protection | ||
| Agency adopts a final rule or regulation regulating carbon dioxide | ||
| as a pollutant, property that is used, constructed, acquired, or | ||
| installed wholly or partly to capture carbon dioxide from an | ||
| anthropogenic source in this state that is geologically sequestered | ||
| in this state; | ||
| (17) fuel cells generating electricity using hydrogen | ||
| derived from coal, biomass, petroleum coke, or solid waste; [ |
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| (18) any other equipment designed to prevent, capture, | ||
| abate, or monitor nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, | ||
| particulate matter, mercury, carbon monoxide, or any criteria | ||
| pollutant; and | ||
| (19) energy storage systems or technologies with a | ||
| storage capacity of at least 10 megawatts, including grid scale | ||
| batteries, flywheels, and compressed air energy storage systems. | ||
| (k-1) Energy storage systems or technologies described by | ||
| Subsection (k)(19) that are used to provide reliability services to | ||
| an electrical grid within an area designated as a nonattainment | ||
| area within the meaning of Section 107(d) of the federal Clean Air | ||
| Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7407(d)) are considered to be used wholly as | ||
| devices for the control of air pollution. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| ad valorem taxes imposed for a tax year beginning on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2012. | ||
