Bill Text: TX SB1949 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation of Texas Emissions Reduction Plan funds.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-25 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1949 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1949-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 1949 | |
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| relating to the allocation of Texas Emissions Reduction Plan funds. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 386.252(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Money in the fund may be used only to implement and | ||
| administer programs established under the plan. Money | ||
| appropriated to the commission to be used for the programs under | ||
| Section 386.051(b) shall be allocated as follows: | ||
| (1) not more than four percent may be used for the | ||
| clean school bus program under Chapter 390; | ||
| (2) not more than three percent may be used for the new | ||
| technology implementation grant program under Chapter 391, from | ||
| which at least $1 million will be set aside for electricity storage | ||
| projects related to renewable energy; | ||
| (3) five percent shall be used for the clean fleet | ||
| program under Chapter 392; | ||
| (4) not more than $1 [ |
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| commission to fund a regional air monitoring program in commission | ||
| Regions 3 and 4 to be implemented under the commission's oversight, | ||
| including direction regarding the type, number, location, and | ||
| operation of, and data validation practices for, monitors funded by | ||
| the program through a regional nonprofit entity located in North | ||
| Texas having representation from counties, municipalities, higher | ||
| education institutions, and private sector interests across the | ||
| area; | ||
| (5) not less than 16 percent shall be used for the | ||
| Texas natural gas vehicle grant program under Chapter 394; | ||
| (6) not more than five percent may be used to provide | ||
| grants for natural gas fueling stations under the clean | ||
| transportation triangle program under Section 394.010; | ||
| (7) not more than five percent may be used for the | ||
| Texas alternative fueling facilities program under Chapter 393; | ||
| (8) a specified amount may be used each year to support | ||
| research related to air quality as provided by Chapter 387; | ||
| (9) not more than $200,000 may be used for a health | ||
| effects study; | ||
| (10) $200,000 [ |
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| state treasury to the credit of the clean air account created under | ||
| Section 382.0622 to supplement funding for air quality planning | ||
| activities in affected counties; | ||
| (11) at least $4 million and up to four percent to a | ||
| maximum of $7 million, whichever is greater, is allocated to the | ||
| commission for administrative costs; | ||
| (12) at least two percent and up to five percent of the | ||
| fund is to be used by the commission for the drayage truck incentive | ||
| program established under Subchapter D-1; | ||
| (13) not more than five percent may be used for the | ||
| light-duty motor vehicle purchase or lease incentive program | ||
| established under Subchapter D; | ||
| (14) not more than $216,000 is allocated to the | ||
| commission to contract with the Energy Systems Laboratory at the | ||
| Texas Engineering Experiment Station annually for the development | ||
| and annual computation of creditable statewide emissions | ||
| reductions obtained through wind and other renewable energy | ||
| resources for the state implementation plan; | ||
| (15) 1.5 percent of the money in the fund is allocated | ||
| for administrative costs incurred by the laboratory; and | ||
| (16) at least 50 percent, and any remaining balance as | ||
| determined by the commission, [ |
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| commission for the diesel emissions reduction incentive program | ||
| under Subchapter C [ |
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| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
