Bill Text: TX HB2859 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Harless (Senate Sponsor - Patrick) | H.B. No. 2859 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2013; | ||
May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural | ||
Resources; May 20, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; | ||
May 20, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2859 | By: Nichols |
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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 | ||
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million may be used only for projects described by Subsection | ||
(b)(4). The remaining $5 million may be used for any project | ||
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. | ||
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