Bill Text: TX HB3387 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from the sales tax for certified water conservation technologies, authorizing a fee.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-09 - No action taken in committee [HB3387 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3387-Introduced.html
| By: Hilderbran | H.B. No. 3387 | |
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| relating to an exemption from the sales tax for certified water | ||
| conservation technologies, authorizing a fee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 151.355, Tax Code, is amended by adding | ||
| subsection (8) as follows: | ||
| Sec. 151.355. WATER-RELATED EXEMPTIONS. The following are | ||
| exempted from taxes imposed by this chapter: | ||
| (1) rainwater harvesting equipment or supplies, water | ||
| recycling and reuse equipment or supplies, or other equipment, | ||
| services, or supplies used solely to reduce or eliminate water use; | ||
| (2) equipment, services, or supplies used solely for | ||
| desalination of surface water or groundwater; | ||
| (3) equipment, services, or supplies used solely for | ||
| brush control designed to enhance the availability of water; | ||
| (4) equipment, services, or supplies used solely for | ||
| precipitation enhancement; | ||
| (5) equipment, services, or supplies used solely to | ||
| construct or operate a water or wastewater system certified by the | ||
| Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as a regional system; | ||
| (6) equipment, services, or supplies used solely to | ||
| construct or operate a water supply or wastewater system by a | ||
| private entity as a public-private partnership as certified by the | ||
| political subdivision that is a party to the project; and | ||
| (7) tangible personal property specifically used to | ||
| process, reuse, or recycle wastewater that will be used in | ||
| fracturing work performed at an oil or gas well. | ||
| (8) items used in technologies certified by the | ||
| railroad commission pursuant to section 81.080, natural resources | ||
| code, to reduce or eliminate fresh water usage in stimulating oil | ||
| and gas production. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subsection 81.067(c), Natural Resources Code, is | ||
| amended as follows: | ||
| (c) The fund consists of: | ||
| (1) proceeds from bonds and other financial security | ||
| required by this chapter and benefits under well-specific plugging | ||
| insurance policies described by Section 91.104(c) that are paid to | ||
| the state as contingent beneficiary of the policies, subject to the | ||
| refund provisions of Section 91.1091, if applicable; | ||
| (2) private contributions, including contributions | ||
| made under Section 89.084; | ||
| (3) expenses collected under Section 89.083; | ||
| (4) fees imposed under Section 85.2021; | ||
| (5) costs recovered under Section 91.457 or 91.459; | ||
| (6) proceeds collected under Sections 89.085 and | ||
| 91.115; | ||
| (7) interest earned on the funds deposited in the | ||
| fund; | ||
| (8) oil and gas waste hauler permit application fees | ||
| collected under Section 29.015, Water Code; | ||
| (9) costs recovered under Section 91.113(f); | ||
| (10) hazardous oil and gas waste generation fees | ||
| collected under Section 91.605; | ||
| (11) oil-field cleanup regulatory fees on oil | ||
| collected under Section 81.116; | ||
| (12) oil-field cleanup regulatory fees on gas | ||
| collected under Section 81.117; | ||
| (13) fees for a reissued certificate collected under | ||
| Section 91.707; | ||
| (14) fees collected under Section 91.1013; | ||
| (15) fees collected under Section 89.088; | ||
| (16) fees collected under Section 91.142; | ||
| (17) fees collected under Section 91.654; | ||
| (18) costs recovered under Sections 91.656 and 91.657; | ||
| (19) two-thirds of the fees collected under Section | ||
| 81.0521; | ||
| (20) fees collected under Sections 89.024 and 89.026; | ||
| (21) legislative appropriations; |
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| (22) any surcharges collected under Section 81.070 |
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| (23) fees collected under Section 81.080. | ||
| SECTION 3. Chapter 81, Natural Resources Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 81.080 as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.080. CERTIFICATION OF WATER CONSERVATION | ||
| TECHNOLOGIES. The commission shall receive applications for and | ||
| may certify technologies that demonstrably reduce or eliminate | ||
| fresh water usage in stimulating oil and gas production. The | ||
| commission shall publish and periodically update a list of approved | ||
| technologies on the agency website. The commission may impose a fee | ||
| in an amount sufficient to cover the costs of administering this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act does not | ||
| affect tax liability accruing before the effective date of this | ||
| Act. That liability continues in effect as if this Act had not been | ||
| enacted, and the former law is continued in effect for the | ||
| collection of taxes due and for civil and criminal enforcement of | ||
| the liability for those taxes. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
