By: Burns (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 4296
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2021;
May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Water,
Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2021, reported favorably by
the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of dyed diesel fuel to operate a motor vehicle
during and for a limited period following certain disasters.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 162.235, Tax Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a person who purchases
dyed motor fuel and furnishes to the licensed supplier or
distributor under Section 162.206(a) a signed statement that
includes an end user number issued by the comptroller may operate a
motor vehicle on a public highway in this state with that dyed motor
fuel in the fuel supply tank of the motor vehicle during a period
beginning on the date a state of disaster is declared under Section
418.014, Government Code, due to a fire, flood, earthquake,
tornado, hurricane, storm, or energy emergency and ending on the
30th day after the declaration expires or otherwise terminates, if
the motor vehicle is operated:
(1) in the area designated a disaster area by the
disaster declaration; or
(2) in an area other than the area described by
Subdivision (1) if the dyed motor fuel was placed in the fuel supply
tank of the motor vehicle in the area described by that subdivision.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
Conduct that occurred before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct occurred, and
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, conduct occurred before the effective
date of this Act if any element of the conduct occurred before that
date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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