By: Coleman H.B. No. 4455
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of pollution
  control property.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 11.31(k), Tax Code, is amended by adding
  subsection (19) to read as follows:
         (k)  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall
  adopt rules establishing a nonexclusive list of facilities,
  devices, or methods for the control of air, water, or land
  pollution, which must include:
               (1)  coal cleaning or refining facilities;
               (2)  atmospheric or pressurized and bubbling or
  circulating fluidized bed combustion systems and gasification
  fluidized bed combustion combined cycle systems;
               (3)  ultra-supercritical pulverized coal boilers;
               (4)  flue gas recirculation components;
               (5)  syngas purification systems and gas-cleanup
  units;
               (6)  enhanced heat recovery systems;
               (7)  exhaust heat recovery boilers;
               (8)  heat recovery steam generators;
               (9)  superheaters and evaporators;
               (10)  enhanced steam turbine systems;
               (11)  methanation;
               (12)  coal combustion or gasification byproduct and
  coproduct handling, storage, or treatment facilities;
               (13)  biomass cofiring storage, distribution, and
  firing systems;
               (14)  coal cleaning or drying processes, such as coal
  drying/moisture reduction, air jigging, precombustion
  decarbonization, and coal flow balancing technology;
               (15)  oxy-fuel combustion technology, amine or chilled
  ammonia scrubbing, fuel or emission conversion through the use of
  catalysts, enhanced scrubbing technology, modified combustion
  technology such as chemical looping, and cryogenic technology;
               (16)  if the United States Environmental Protection
  Agency adopts a final rule or regulation regulating carbon dioxide
  as a pollutant, property that is used, constructed, acquired, or
  installed wholly or partly to capture carbon dioxide from an
  anthropogenic source in this state that is geologically sequestered
  in this state;
               (17)  fuel cells generating electricity using hydrogen
  derived from coal, biomass, petroleum coke, or solid waste; [and]
               (18)  any other equipment designed to prevent, capture,
  abate, or monitor nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds,
  particulate matter, mercury, carbon monoxide, or any criteria
  pollutant; and[.]
               (19)  land-based approaches to carbon sequestration,
  including but not limited to reforestation, afforestation, forest
  conservation, restorative grazing practices, conservation tillage
  and no-till land preparation methods, use of cover crops, switch
  grass and other native grasses, and other forms of conservation
  agriculture with evidence-based carbon sequestration benefits.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.