Bill Text: TX HB1463 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the manufacture, transportation, storage, and disposal of new and scrap tires; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-22 - Filed [HB1463 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1463-Introduced.html
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| By: Jones of Dallas | H.B. No. 1463 | |
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| relating to the manufacture, transportation, storage, and disposal | ||
| of new and scrap tires; authorizing a fee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 361.112, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 361.112. STORAGE, TRANSPORTATION, AND DISPOSAL OF USED | ||
| OR SCRAP TIRES; MANUFACTURER TIRE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 361.112, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsections (g-1), (g-2), (g-3), (g-4), (n), (o), | ||
| and (p) to read as follows: | ||
| (g-1) Not later than one month after the date a tire is | ||
| manufactured in this state, the manufacturer shall submit to the | ||
| commission information that uniquely identifies the tire. The | ||
| manufacturer may submit the information on a date later than one | ||
| month after the tire manufacture date if the manufacturer requests | ||
| a later submission date that is approved by the commission. | ||
| (g-2) A transporter of scrap tires, storage site, or | ||
| disposal and storage facility for scrap tires shall electronically | ||
| sign and submit a manifest prepared under this section to the | ||
| commission on the initial transfer of each shipment of scrap tires | ||
| to the transporter, site, or facility. | ||
| (g-3) The commission by rule shall prescribe requirements | ||
| for a scrap tire tagging system. A manifest prepared and submitted | ||
| under this section must include a reference to the tagging system | ||
| and uniquely identify each tire received from a transporter of | ||
| scrap tires. | ||
| (g-4) A transporter of scrap tires is liable for each scrap | ||
| tire transported to a storage site or disposal facility that is not | ||
| registered or permitted under this section. The commissioners | ||
| court of the county in which the improper storage or disposal of the | ||
| scrap tire occurs may impose a fine on the transporter in an amount | ||
| not to exceed $500 per tire. | ||
| (n) The commissioners court of a county in which is located | ||
| a generator of scrap tires who uses an unregistered transporter to | ||
| transport tires may: | ||
| (1) impose a fine in an amount not to exceed $500 on | ||
| the generator for each scrap tire the unregistered transporter | ||
| transports; or | ||
| (2) suspend or revoke any license or permit to sell | ||
| tires the county has issued to the generator. | ||
| (o) The commissioners court of a county may: | ||
| (1) impose a fee of not more than $5 for each tire | ||
| disposal in the county; and | ||
| (2) transfer 50 cents of the fee imposed under | ||
| Subdivision (1) to the commission. | ||
| (p) The commissioners court of a county: | ||
| (1) shall deposit a fine or fee collected under this | ||
| section into an account administered by the county for the purpose | ||
| of disposing of, mitigating the effects from disposal of, and | ||
| recycling tires; and | ||
| (2) may use any fines or fees collected under this | ||
| section to establish a tire recycling facility in the county. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
