81R12770 JJT-F
By: Hunter H.B. No. 3975
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a waste tire recycling program; imposing administrative
and civil penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 5, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Chapter 376 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 376. WASTE TIRE RECYCLING PROGRAM
Sec. 376.001. COMMISSION TO ESTABLISH PROGRAM. (a) The
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality by rule shall adopt and
implement a waste tire recycling program to be operated and
enforced in the same way that this state's former waste tire
recycling program was operated and enforced as provided by former
Subchapter P, Chapter 361, as that subchapter was originally
enacted.
(b) The commission has all authority necessary to adopt,
implement, operate, and enforce the waste tire recycling program as
Subsection (a) requires.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.