Bill Text: TX HB4932 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the amount of foreign emissions of air contaminants in nonattainment areas and the revision of the state implementation plan to account for those emissions.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective immediately [HB4932 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4932-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the amount of foreign emissions of air contaminants in nonattainment areas and the revision of the state implementation plan to account for those emissions.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective immediately [HB4932 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4932-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Lopez of Cameron, et al. | H.B. No. 4932 | |
| (Senate Sponsor - Sparks) | ||
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2023; | ||
| May 9, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural | ||
| Resources & Economic Development; May 18, 2023, reported favorably | ||
| by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 18, 2023, sent to | ||
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| relating to the amount of foreign emissions of air contaminants in | ||
| nonattainment areas and the revision of the state implementation | ||
| plan to account for those emissions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 382, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 382.0175 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 382.0175. AMOUNT OF FOREIGN EMISSIONS IN NONATTAINMENT | ||
| AREAS; REVISION OF STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Foreign emissions" means emissions of air | ||
| contaminants emanating from outside the United States. | ||
| (2) "Federal air quality monitor" means a monitor that | ||
| is used to report data to the United States Environmental | ||
| Protection Agency to demonstrate compliance with the national | ||
| ambient air quality standards. | ||
| (b) The commission shall estimate the contribution of | ||
| foreign emissions at each federal air quality monitor located in | ||
| each nonattainment area in this state with respect to each air | ||
| contaminant for which the area is designated as being in | ||
| nonattainment for any national ambient air quality standards for | ||
| ozone or particulate matter. The commission may contract with a | ||
| third party to conduct the estimate required by this subsection. | ||
| (c) Not later than September 1, 2027, the executive director | ||
| shall, using the estimate conducted under Subsection (b), report to | ||
| the commission a recommendation on whether to revise the state | ||
| implementation plan to account for the contribution of foreign | ||
| emissions in each nonattainment area in this state in any manner | ||
| permissible under federal law. In preparing the report to the | ||
| commission, the executive director shall consider any areas in this | ||
| state designated as nonattainment for ozone or particulate matter | ||
| as of September 1, 2026. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2029. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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