By: Birdwell  S.B. No. 531
         (In the Senate - Filed January 30, 2019; February 21, 2019,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources &
  Economic Development; April 8, 2019, reported adversely, with
  favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; April 8, 2019, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 531 By:  Birdwell
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to sources of funding for the Texas emissions reduction
  plan.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 151.0515(d), Tax Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (d)  This section expires August 31, 2021 [2019].
         SECTION 2.  Section 152.0215(c), Tax Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (c)  This section expires August 31, 2021 [2019].
         SECTION 3.  Section 501.138(b-3), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b-3)  This subsection and Subsection (b-2) expire August
  31, 2021 [2019].
         SECTION 4.  Section 502.358(c), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (c)  This section expires August 31, 2021 [2019].
         SECTION 5.  The heading to Section 548.5055, Transportation
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 548.5055.  TEXAS EMISSIONS [EMISSION] REDUCTION PLAN
  FEE.
         SECTION 6.  Sections 548.5055(b) and (c), Transportation
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The department shall remit fees collected under this
  section to the comptroller at the time and in the manner prescribed
  by the comptroller for deposit in the Texas emissions [emission]
  reduction plan fund.
         (c)  This section expires August 31, 2021 [2019].
         SECTION 7.  Sections 8(a-2) and (b), Chapter 755 (S.B.
  1731), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, are
  repealed.
         SECTION 8.  This Act takes effect August 30, 2019.
 
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