By Cook H.B. No. 227
74R1775 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the waste tire recycling fund.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 361.475, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended by amending Subsection (f) and adding Subsection (k) to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (f) The fund may not be used to reimburse shredding of:
1-8 (1) innertubes;
1-9 (2) scrap rubber products;
1-10 (3) green tires;
1-11 (4) industrial solid waste, excluding waste tires;
1-12 (5) oversized tires, as defined by commission rule,
1-13 unless the oversized tires are collected from a priority
1-14 enforcement list site; <or>
1-15 (6) manufacturer reject tires; or
1-16 (7) any tires shredded in excess of a waste tire
1-17 processor's monthly allocation for reimbursement.
1-18 (k) Unexpended money in the fund at the end of the fiscal
1-19 year may be transferred from the fund into the general revenue
1-20 fund.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.