Bill Text: TX HB787 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to incentives for the purchase or lease of an electric-powered light-duty motor vehicle.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-18 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB787 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB787-Introduced.html

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83R2170 SLB-D
By: Rodriguez of Travis H.B. No. 787

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to incentives for the purchase or lease of an
electric-powered light-duty motor vehicle.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 386.152(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The program shall authorize statewide incentives for
the purchase or lease, according to the schedule provided by
Section 386.153, of new gasoline-powered light-duty motor vehicles
that are certified by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to meet an emissions standard that is at least as stringent
as those provided by Section 386.153(a) and electric-powered motor
vehicles under Section 386.153(b) [386.153] for a purchaser or
lessee who agrees to register the vehicle in this state and to
operate the vehicle in this state for not less than 75 percent of
the vehicle's annual mileage.
SECTION 2. Section 386.153, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 386.153. LIGHT-DUTY MOTOR VEHICLE PURCHASE OR LEASE
INCENTIVE SCHEDULE. (a) A new light-duty motor vehicle powered
exclusively by a gasoline engine is eligible for an incentive
according to the following schedule:
Incentive emissions standard and incentive amount
Model year 2003-2007
Bin 4 $1,250
Bin 3 $2,225
Bin 2 $3,750
Bin 1 $5,000
(b) A new light-duty motor vehicle powered in part by an
electric motor, including a vehicle that draws power from a battery
or a hybrid engine, is eligible for a $2,500 incentive.
(c) The incentive under Subsection (b) is limited to 2,000
vehicles for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2013.
This subsection expires September 1, 2015.
SECTION 3. Section 386.154, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 386.154. MODIFICATION OF INCENTIVE EMISSIONS
STANDARDS. After evaluating new technologies and after public
notice and comment, the commission, in consultation with the
advisory board, may change the incentive emissions standards
established by Section 386.153(a) [386.153] to improve the ability
of the program to achieve its goals.
SECTION 4. Section 386.155, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 386.155. MANUFACTURER'S REPORT. At the beginning of
but not later than July 1 of each year preceding the vehicle model
year, a manufacturer of motor vehicles shall provide to the
commission a list of the new vehicle models that the manufacturer
intends to sell in this state during that model year that meet the
incentive emissions standards established by the schedules set out
under Section 386.153(a) or that are electric-powered vehicles
described by Section 386.153(b) [386.153]. The manufacturer may
supplement the list provided to the commission under this section
as necessary to include additional new vehicle models the
manufacturer intends to sell in this state during the model year.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.