By Krusee                                             H.B. No. 1377
       74R3344 JJT-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to waste tire recycling fees on certain agricultural
    1-3  equipment tires.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 361.472(a), Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A wholesale or retail tire dealer who sells or  offers
    1-8  to  sell  new tires  not for resale shall collect at the time and
    1-9  place of sale a waste tire recycling fee for each new tire sold as
   1-10  follows:
   1-11              (1)  $2 for each tire that has a rim diameter of 12
   1-12  inches but less than 17.5 inches;
   1-13              (2)  $3.50 for each tire that has a rim diameter of
   1-14  17.5 inches but less than 25 inches; <and>
   1-15              (3)  $2 for a motorcycle tire, regardless of the rim
   1-16  diameter; and
   1-17              (4)  $3.50 for an agricultural equipment tire with a
   1-18  load range of C-F or a ply of 6-12, regardless of the rim diameter.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.