Bill Text: TX SB2559 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to supplemental environmental projects authorized by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2019-05-02 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2559-Introduced.html
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By: Creighton | S.B. No. 2559 |
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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. |