1-1 By: Parker S.B. No. 1071
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 March 30, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-5 Nays 0; March 30, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Parker x
1-9 Lucio x
1-10 Ellis x
1-11 Haley x
1-12 Harris of Dallas x
1-13 Harris of Tarrant x
1-14 Leedom x
1-15 Madla x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the requirement that school districts use buses that
1-22 run on natural gas.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 21.174, Education Code,
1-25 is amended to read as follows:
1-26 (d)(1) Any county or local district school board which
1-27 operates a fleet of more than 50 motor vehicles used for
1-28 transporting school children shall achieve the conversion of the
1-29 following percentages of such vehicles to the use of <capable of
1-30 using> compressed natural gas or other alternative fuels by the
1-31 times specified:
1-32 (A) <the percentage shall be> equal to or
1-33 greater than 30 percent of the number of such vehicles operated by
1-34 September 1, 1994; and
1-35 (B) equal to or greater than 50 percent of the
1-36 number of such vehicles operated by September 1, 1996.
1-37 (2) A school board subject to Subdivision (1) of this
1-38 subsection may enter into a long-term contract to achieve the
1-39 required percentages.
1-40 (3) The Texas Air Control Board must review this
1-41 alternative fuel use program by December 31, 1996, and, if the
1-42 Texas Air Control Board determines that the program has been
1-43 effective in reducing total annual emissions from vehicles in the
1-44 area, county and local district school boards operating fleets of
1-45 more than 50 motor vehicles used for transporting school children
1-46 shall achieve a percentage of such vehicles capable of using
1-47 compressed natural gas or other alternative fuels equal to or
1-48 greater than 90 percent of the number of fleet vehicles operated by
1-49 September 1, 1999 <1998>, and thereafter.
1-50 (4) <(3)> County and local district school boards
1-51 shall submit to the Central Education Agency annual reports
1-52 summarizing their progress in achieving these percentage
1-53 requirements and increasing use of compressed natural gas or other
1-54 alternative fuels, and the Central Education Agency shall submit
1-55 the summaries to the Texas Air Control Board by September 1 of each
1-56 year.
1-57 (5) <(4)> County and local district school boards, the
1-58 Central Education Agency, and the State Purchasing and General
1-59 Services Commission shall support the Texas Air Control Board in
1-60 collecting reasonable information needed to determine air quality
1-61 benefits from use of alternative fuels in affected districts.
1-62 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-63 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-64 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-65 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-66 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-67 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-68 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-1 * * * * *
2-2 Austin,
2-3 Texas
2-4 March 30, 1993
2-5 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-6 President of the Senate
2-7 Sir:
2-8 We, your Committee on Economic Development to which was referred
2-9 S.B. No. 1071, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-10 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-11 that it do pass and be printed.
2-12 Parker,
2-13 Chairman
2-14 * * * * *
2-15 WITNESSES
2-16 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1071.