Bill Text: TX HB489 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a waste tire dumping enforcement grant program; authorizing a fee.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-16 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB489 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB489-Introduced.html
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| By: González of El Paso | H.B. No. 489 | |
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| relating to the creation of a waste tire dumping enforcement grant | ||
| program; authorizing a fee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 361, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter P to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER P. WASTE TIRE DUMPING ENFORCEMENT GRANT PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 361.471. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter, "used tire" | ||
| means a tire that: | ||
| (1) has been used as a tire on a vehicle; and | ||
| (2) can still be used for its original intended | ||
| purpose. | ||
| Sec. 361.472. COLLECTION OF FEE ON SALE OF TIRE. (a) A | ||
| seller shall collect a fee in an amount to be determined by the | ||
| commission on the sale of each new or used tire. | ||
| (b) On a schedule determined by the commission, a seller | ||
| shall remit fees collected under Subsection (a) to the comptroller | ||
| for deposit into an account in the general revenue fund to be used | ||
| to fund the grant program under Section 361.473. | ||
| Sec. 361.473. GRANT PROGRAM. The commission shall develop | ||
| and implement a program to provide grants to local law enforcement | ||
| agencies to assist those agencies in the enforcement of laws | ||
| related to the illegal dumping of tires. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
