Bill Text: TX HB3282 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Relating to the manufacture, transportation, storage, and disposal of new and scrap tires; authorizing a fee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [HB3282 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3282-Engrossed.html
  88R23886 MP-F
 
  By: Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 3282
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the manufacture, transportation, storage, and disposal
  of new and scrap tires; authorizing a fee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 361.112, Health and
  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 361.112.  STORAGE, TRANSPORTATION, AND DISPOSAL OF USED
  OR SCRAP TIRES; MANUFACTURER TIRE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION.
         SECTION 2.  Section 361.112, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsections (g-1), (g-2), (g-3), (g-4), (n), (o),
  and (p) to read as follows:
         (g-1)  Not later than one month after the date a tire is
  manufactured in this state, the manufacturer shall submit to the
  commission information that uniquely identifies the tire. The
  manufacturer may submit the information on a date later than one
  month after the tire manufacture date if the manufacturer requests
  a later submission date that is approved by the commission.
         (g-2)  A transporter of scrap tires or a storage site or
  disposal and storage facility for scrap tires shall electronically
  sign and submit a manifest prepared under this section to the
  commission on the initial transfer of each shipment of scrap tires
  to the transporter, site, or facility.
         (g-3)  The commission by rule shall prescribe requirements
  for a scrap tire tagging system. A manifest prepared and submitted
  under this section must include a reference to the tagging system
  and uniquely identify each tire received from a transporter of
  scrap tires.
         (g-4)  A transporter of scrap tires is liable for each scrap
  tire transported to a storage site or disposal facility that is not
  registered or permitted under this section. The commissioners
  court of the county in which the improper storage or disposal of the
  scrap tire occurs may impose a fine on the transporter in an amount
  not to exceed $500 per tire.
         (n)  The commissioners court of a county in which is located
  a generator of scrap tires who uses an unregistered transporter to
  transport tires may:
               (1)  impose a fine in an amount not to exceed $500 on
  the generator for each scrap tire the unregistered transporter
  transports; or
               (2)  suspend or revoke any license or permit to sell
  tires the county has issued to the generator.
         (o)  The commissioners court of a county may:
               (1)  impose a fee of not more than $5 for each tire
  disposal in the county; and 
               (2)  transfer 50 cents of the fee imposed under
  Subdivision (1) to the commission.
         (p)  The commissioners court of a county:
               (1)  shall deposit a fine or fee collected under this
  section into an account administered by the county for the purpose
  of disposing of, mitigating the effects from disposal of, and
  recycling tires; and
               (2)  may use any fines or fees collected under this
  section to establish a tire recycling facility in the county.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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