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Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1)  In Article VI of the bill, in the appropriations for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (page VI-15), reduce the appropriations for Strategy A.1.1, Air Quality Assessment and Planning, by $750,000 out of General Revenue-Dedicated Clean Air Account No. 151 in fiscal year 2020.
(2)  In the bill pattern for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, amend Rider 23, Low-Income Vehicle Repair Assistance, Retrofit, and Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program (LIRAP), (page VI-22) as follows:
23.  Low-Income Vehicle Repair Assistance, Retrofit, and Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program (LIRAP). Amounts appropriated above out of the Clean Air Account No. 151 in Strategy A.1.1, Air Quality Assessment and Planning, include [$48,297,728 each fiscal year] $47,547,728 in fiscal year 2020 and $48,297,728 in fiscal year 2021 in estimated fee revenues from vehicle inspection and maintenance fees generated pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 382.202 and 382.302, to fund the Low-Income Vehicle Repair Assistance, Retrofit, and Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program (LIRAP). Out of these amounts, not more than $253,893 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for costs associated with administering the LIRAP as authorized in Health and Safety Code, Section 382.202, and all remaining funds shall be used as LIRAP grants to local governments.
Amounts appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1, Air Quality Assessment and Planning, also include $4,829,673 in each fiscal year of the 2020-21 biennium out of the Clean Air Account No. 151 to be used only for purposes authorized in Chapter 382 of the Health and Safety Code for county-implemented local initiatives projects to reduce air emissions.
Amounts appropriated above for LIRAP grants and local initiatives projects also include an estimated $2,448,268 in estimated fee revenue generated from Travis County and $1,113,280 each fiscal year in estimated fee revenue generated from Williamson County for the 2020-21 biennium. The TCEQ shall allocate, at a minimum, the estimated revenue amounts collected in each of the counties during the 2020-21 biennium to provide LIRAP grants and local initiatives projects in those counties.
In addition to the amounts appropriated above, any additional revenues from vehicle inspection and maintenance fees generated from additional counties participating in the LIRAP beginning on or after September 1, 2019, are appropriated to the TCEQ for the biennium. Such funds shall be used to provide grants to local governments and to cover administrative costs of the TCEQ in administering the LIRAP.
(3)  In the bill pattern for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, add the following new rider (VI-24):
____.  Contingency for HB 4166. Contingent on the enactment of HB 4166, or similar legislation, relating to a study of the feasibility of the expansion of navigation on the Red River by the Red River Authority of Texas, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is appropriated $750,000 in fiscal year 2020 in General Revenue-Dedicated Water Resource Management Account No. 153 for a grant to the Red River Authority to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of barge traffic and other kinds of boating on the Red River.