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HB 479 Original 2015 Regular Session Armes
Abstract: Increases the fees collected at the sale of certain tires and increases the reimbursement
to the waste tire processors.
Present law provides that $2 per passenger/light truck tire, $5 per medium truck tire, and $10 per
off-road tire be collected for every tire sold. Specifies that these fees are deposited into the Waste
Tire Management Fund which is used to operate the waste tire program in the Dept. of
Environmental Quality (DEQ). One aspect of that program is to reimburse waste tire processors
from the fund for scrapping waste tires generated within the state.
Proposed law changes the fee on a passenger/light truck tire from $2 to $3 and the fee on a medium
truck tire from $5 to $7.50.
Present law authorizes the secretary to provide for fee exemptions for certain tires. Proposed law
retains present law.
Present law requires a permitted waste tire processing facility to be paid a minimum of .075¢ per
pound of waste tire material that is recycled or that reaches end market uses or per pound of whole
waste tires that are recycled or reaches end market uses.
Proposed law changes the minimum payment from .075¢ to 9¢.
(Amends R.S. 30:2418(I)(1) and (2))