By Bosse                                               H.B. No. 426
       74R2089 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to used tire recycling.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 361.492, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 361.492.  New Tire Wholesalers and Retailers.  (a)  A
    1-7  person selling new tires as described in Section 361.472(a) shall
    1-8  accept from customers, without charge, used tires of the type and
    1-9  in a quantity at least equal to the number of new tires purchased.
   1-10        (b)  A person selling new tires as described by Section
   1-11  361.472(a) who provides waste tires to a waste tire processor or a
   1-12  waste tire transporter shall cut the tread of each waste tire, in a
   1-13  manner prescribed by commission rule to render the tire unusable
   1-14  for the purpose of retreading, before releasing the tire to the
   1-15  processor or transporter.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.