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.