Bill Text: TX HB4493 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to supplemental environmental projects authorized by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-15 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [HB4493 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4493-Introduced.html
  86R13996 JXC-F
 
  By: Deshotel H.B. No. 4493
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to supplemental environmental projects authorized by the
  Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 7.067, Water Code, is amended by adding
  Subsections (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows:
         (d)  The commission may determine the types of projects that
  may be approved as a supplemental environmental project.  For a
  respondent that is a local government, those types of projects must
  include:
               (1)  purchasing, operating, or maintaining:
                     (A)  alternative fuel vehicles, including
  passenger cars, light trucks, heavy trucks, and buses; and
                     (B)  alternative fuel heavy equipment, including
  tractors, bulldozers, front-end loaders, and motor graders;
               (2)  constructing, operating, or maintaining
  alternative fuel refueling infrastructure necessary to operate an
  alternative fuel fleet; and
               (3)  providing energy efficiency upgrades to buildings
  and facilities owned by the local government, including heating,
  ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, and building envelope
  upgrades.
         (e)  For a supplemental environmental project involving
  alternative fuel vehicles, the commission:
               (1)  must allow the project to include:
                     (A)  the entire cost of the vehicle; and
                     (B)  any alternative fuel equipment or upgrades
  involved; and
               (2)  may not limit the project to including only the
  difference in cost between conventional fuel vehicles, equipment,
  or upgrades and the alternative fuel counterparts.
         (f)  The commission:
               (1)  may not require a contract associated with a
  supplemental environmental project to be for a term of less than
  five years; and
               (2)  must allow a contract associated with a
  supplemental environmental project to be renewable for periods of
  at least five years.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
feedback