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.