By Saunders H.B. No. 2428
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the administration of the used oil recycling fee.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 371.062(g), Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (g) The fee imposed under this section is two cents per
1-7 quart or eight cents per gallon of automotive oil. The department
1-8 shall monitor the unobligated balance of the used oil recycling
1-9 fund and shall adjust the fee rate to meet the expenditure
1-10 requirements of the used oil recycling program and to maintain an
1-11 appropriate fund balance. The fee imposed under this section may
1-12 not exceed five cents per quart or 20 cents per gallon of
1-13 automotive oil. On or before September 1 of each year, the
1-14 department <and the comptroller jointly> shall issue notice of the
1-15 effective fee rate for the next fiscal year.
1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.