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Senate Bill 246 |
Senate Author: Alvarado |
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Effective: 9-1-23 |
House Sponsor: Goldman |
Senate Bill 246 amends the Occupations Code to revise provisions relating to the regulation of motor fuel metering and quality by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Among other provisions, the bill updates and clarifies terminology, removes references to weight as a method of measure for motor fuel, clarifies TDLR's role with respect to the sampling and testing of motor fuel and the issuance of a stop-sale order, repeals the requirement that the state metrology laboratory purchase standards for use by TDLR, provides for an alternative metrology laboratory to inspect and correct applicable standards, authorizes TDLR to inspect a motor fuel metering device it believes is being used to perpetuate fraud, and establishes that provisions relating to motor fuel metering and quality do not apply to a weighing or measuring device that measures liquefied petroleum gas.