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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
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. |