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recycling program was operated and enforced as provided by former Subchapter P, Chapter 361, as that subchapter was originally enacted.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.