Bill Text: TX HB286 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to promotion of the use of recyclable materials as feedstock for processing and manufacturing.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-06 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB286 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB286-Introduced.html

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86R2692 MP-F
By: Thompson of Brazoria H.B. No. 286

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to promotion of the use of recyclable materials as
feedstock for manufacturing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 361.0151, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c), (d),
(e), (f), (g), (h), (i), and (j) to read as follows:
(b) The commission shall work in conjunction with the Texas
Economic Development and Tourism Office [Department of Commerce] to
pursue the development of markets for recycled materials, including
composting products.
(c) In cooperation with the Texas Economic Development and
Tourism Office, the commission shall produce a plan to stimulate
the use of recyclable materials as feedstock in manufacturing.
(d) The plan must:
(1) identify the quantity and type of recyclable
materials that are being recycled, including paper, plastic, metal,
glass, vegetative waste, compost, mulch, tires, electronic waste,
construction and demolition debris, batteries, and paint;
(2) identify and estimate the quantity and type of
recyclable materials that are generated but not being recycled;
(3) identify and estimate the current economic
benefits of recycling materials and the potential economic benefits
to be gained by recycling materials identified under Subdivision
(2);
(4) identify the location and processing capacity of
existing manufacturers that use recyclable materials as feedstock;
(5) identify the barriers to increasing the use of
recyclable materials as feedstock for manufacturers;
(6) identify and estimate the need and type of
manufacturing facilities necessary to consume the existing and
potential volumes of recyclable materials; and
(7) recommend institutional, financial,
administrative, and physical methods, means, and processes that
could be applied to increase the use of recyclable materials and to
stimulate the use of those materials by manufacturers.
(e) The plan may not require any generator, collector, or
processor of recyclable materials to ship to or use any particular
manufacturing facility.
(f) To the extent practicable in preparing the plan, the
commission shall use methodologies, data, and information derived
from other recycling economic studies already performed.
(g) The commission shall update the plan every five years,
and in a year in which the plan is updated, the plan shall be
included in the annual summary of municipal solid waste management
produced by the municipal solid waste permits section of the
commission and delivered to the governor and legislature.
(h) In cooperation with other state agencies, the
commission shall develop an education program that must include:
(1) the economic benefits of recycling, including job
creation, economic impact, percent of total solid waste recycled,
weight and volume of solid waste recycled, and taxes and fees paid
by the recycling industry;
(2) a spotlight of collectors and processors of
recyclable materials and manufacturers that are using recyclable
materials as feedstock; and
(3) the detrimental effects of contamination in the
recyclable materials stream and the need to reduce those effects.
(i) The commission shall update the education program
required by Subsection (h) at least every five years.
(j) The commission may enter into contracts with public,
private, and nonprofit organizations to produce the plan required
by Subsection (c) and the education program required by Subsection
(h).
SECTION 2. Not later than October 1, 2020, the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality shall complete the initial plan
and education program required under Sections 361.0151(c) and (h),
Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2019.