Bill Text: TX HB2859 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2859 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the amount of money authorized to be used for Clean Air Act local initiative projects related to vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2859 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2859-Introduced.html

	83R9266 JXC-F

	By: Harless	H.B. No. 2859



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the amount of money authorized to be used for Clean Air
	Act local initiative projects related to vehicles.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 382.220(d), Health and Safety Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(d) Fees collected under Sections 382.202 and 382.302 may be
	used, in an amount not to exceed $10 [$5] million per fiscal year,
	for projects described by Subsection (b). The fees shall be made
	available only to counties participating in the low-income vehicle
	repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement
	programs created under Section 382.209 and only on a matching
	basis, whereby the commission provides money to a county in the same
	amount that the county dedicates to a project authorized by
	Subsection (b). The commission may reduce the match requirement
	for a county that proposes to develop and implement independent
	test facility fraud detection programs, including the use of remote
	sensing technology for coordinating with law enforcement officials
	to detect, prevent, and prosecute the use of counterfeit state
	inspection stickers.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.