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.