Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for HB1351, As Introduced : an impact of $0 through the biennium ending August 31, 2025.
However, there would be a fiscal impact of ($176,200,000) to Clean Air Account 151 in the 2024-25 biennium.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is required to implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that purpose, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality may, but is not required to, implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that purpose.
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill.
The bill would amend the Health and Safety Code to require the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to distribute fees collected for the low-income vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement program (LIRAP) to certain counties for use in the Local Initiative Projects (LIP) program.
The bill would apply only to counties that are or were participating in LIRAP and have remitted LIRAP fees to the state. TCEQ would be required to distribute available LIRAP fees collected before September 1, 2023, by January 1, 2024, in an amount proportional to the amount collected in the counties or regions in which the counties are located.
The bill would expire September 1, 2027.