Bill Text: TX HB3602 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation of certain money in the Texas emissions reduction plan fund to fund the energy efficiency grant program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-21 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB3602 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3602-Introduced.html
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| By: Burnam | H.B. No. 3602 | |
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| relating to the allocation of certain money in the Texas emissions | ||
| reduction plan fund to fund the energy efficiency grant program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 386.051(b) and (c), Health and Safety | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) Under the plan, the commission and the comptroller shall | ||
| provide grants or other funding for: | ||
| (1) the diesel emissions reduction incentive program | ||
| established under Subchapter C, including for infrastructure | ||
| projects established under that subchapter; | ||
| (2) the motor vehicle purchase or lease incentive | ||
| program established under Subchapter D; | ||
| (3) the air quality research support program | ||
| established under Chapter 387; | ||
| (4) the clean school bus program established under | ||
| Chapter 390; | ||
| (5) the new technology implementation grant program | ||
| established under Chapter 391; | ||
| (6) the regional air monitoring program established | ||
| under Section 386.252(a) [ |
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| (7) a health effects study as provided by Section | ||
| 386.252(a) [ |
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| (8) air quality planning activities as provided by | ||
| Section 386.252(a) [ |
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| (9) the energy efficiency grant program established | ||
| under Subchapter E; and | ||
| (10) a contract with the Energy Systems Laboratory at | ||
| the Texas Engineering Experiment Station for computation of | ||
| creditable statewide emissions reductions as provided by Section | ||
| 386.252(a) [ |
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| (c) Under the plan, the utility commission shall provide | ||
| grants or other funding in addition to the funding provided by | ||
| Subsection (b)(9) and Section 386.252(a) for the energy efficiency | ||
| grant program established under Subchapter E. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 386.203, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 386.203. ADMINISTRATION OF GRANTS. Money allocated by | ||
| the commission, comptroller, or utility commission under the grant | ||
| program developed under this subchapter shall be administered by | ||
| electric utilities, electric cooperatives, and municipally owned | ||
| utilities. A participating electric utility, electric | ||
| cooperative, or municipally owned utility shall be reimbursed from | ||
| the fund for costs incurred by the utility in administering the | ||
| energy efficiency grant program established under this subchapter. | ||
| Reimbursable administrative costs of a participating entity may not | ||
| exceed 10 percent of the entity's total program budget before | ||
| January 1, 2003, and may not exceed five percent of the entity's | ||
| total program budget on or after that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 386.252, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), 7.5 percent of the | ||
| money in the fund that is allocated for the diesel emissions | ||
| reduction program shall be used for the energy efficiency grant | ||
| program. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
