Bill Text: TX HB4296 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the use of dyed diesel fuel to operate a motor vehicle during and for a limited period following certain disasters.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4296 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4296-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Burns (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) | H.B. No. 4296 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2021; | ||
| May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, | ||
| Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2021, reported favorably by | ||
| the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to the use of dyed diesel fuel to operate a motor vehicle | ||
| during and for a limited period following certain disasters. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 162.235, Tax Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a person who purchases | ||
| dyed motor fuel and furnishes to the licensed supplier or | ||
| distributor under Section 162.206(a) a signed statement that | ||
| includes an end user number issued by the comptroller may operate a | ||
| motor vehicle on a public highway in this state with that dyed motor | ||
| fuel in the fuel supply tank of the motor vehicle during a period | ||
| beginning on the date a state of disaster is declared under Section | ||
| 418.014, Government Code, due to a fire, flood, earthquake, | ||
| tornado, hurricane, storm, or energy emergency and ending on the | ||
| 30th day after the declaration expires or otherwise terminates, if | ||
| the motor vehicle is operated: | ||
| (1) in the area designated a disaster area by the | ||
| disaster declaration; or | ||
| (2) in an area other than the area described by | ||
| Subdivision (1) if the dyed motor fuel was placed in the fuel supply | ||
| tank of the motor vehicle in the area described by that subdivision. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| Conduct that occurred before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct occurred, and | ||
| the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
| purposes of this section, conduct occurred before the effective | ||
| date of this Act if any element of the conduct occurred before that | ||
| date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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