| TO: | Honorable Kip Averitt, Chair, Senate Committee on Natural Resources |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB2714 by Bonnen (Relating to a program for the recycling of computer equipment of consumers in this state; providing administrative penalties.), As Engrossed |
The bill would establish a computer equipment recycling program requiring computer manufacturers to establish free and convenient programs to collect and recycle their own brand of computers sold to consumers. Retailers would only be allowed to sell brands of computers that appear on a list of manufacturers with recovery programs. This list would be maintained by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). In addition, the TCEQ would be required to educate the public regarding the computer recycling program, maintain program information on a web site, enforce requirements for recycling computer equipment, and compile and issue an annual electronic report to the Legislature. The Department of Information Resources (DIR) and the Texas Building and Procurement Commission (TBPC) would be required to adopt rules to ensure compliance by state agencies. Penalties for violations would be deposited to the credit of the General Revenue-Dedicated Waste Management Account No. 549.
Although the TCEQ, the DIR, and the TBPC could incur some administrative costs in implementing the provisions of the bill, these costs are not expected to be signficant.
| Source Agencies: | 303 Building and Procurement Commission, 313 Department of Information Resources, 582 Commission on Environmental Quality
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, WK, TL
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