| TO: | Honorable Dennis Bonnen, Chair, House Committee on Environmental Regulation |
| FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB1005 by Haggerty (Relating to emergency orders and penalties for rock crushers and concrete plants.), Committee Report 1st House, As Amended |
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would change provisions regarding penalties for operating a rock crusher or a concrete plant that performs wet batching, dry batching, or central mixing without a permit from a mandatory $10,000 fine per day to allow the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to assess such penalties at its discretion, with a maximum penalty of $10,000 per day not to exceed 10 days.
Since penalties for this violation are relatively rare, it is not expected that the bill's provisions would result in a significant decrease in fee revenues deposited to the credit of the General Revenue Fund.
| Source Agencies: | 582 Commission on Environmental Quality
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| LBB Staff: | JK, CL, TL
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