By: Staples S.B. No. 444
(In the Senate - Filed February 10, 2005; February 15, 2005,
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
April 20, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
Nays 0; April 20, 2005, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to registration fee credits for the owners of certain dry
cleaning facilities that do not participate in the dry cleaning
facility release fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 374.104, Health and
Safety Code, is repealed.
SECTION 2. An owner of a dry cleaning facility who files an
option not to participate in the dry cleaning facility release fund
on or before December 31, 2005, and whose facility is designated as
nonparticipating by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
under Section 374.104, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this
Act, is entitled to a credit against future registration fees under
Section 374.102, Health and Safety Code, to the extent that a
registration fee paid in 2004 or 2005 exceeded the amount due for a
nonparticipating dry cleaning facility.
SECTION 3. Not later than December 31, 2005, the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt rules governing
applications to register a dry cleaning facility as
nonparticipating in the dry cleaning facility release fund under
Section 374.104, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
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