Bill Text: TX HB405 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane, biodiesel, and renewable diesel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB405 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB405-Introduced.html
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| By: Hayes | H.B. No. 405 | |
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| relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane, | ||
| biodiesel, and renewable diesel. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 16.005(a), Agriculture Code, as amended | ||
| by Chapters 1295 (H.B. 2318) and 1312 (H.B. 2582), Acts of the 81st | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) The office shall impose a fee on each producer in an | ||
| amount equal to 3.2 cents for each gallon of fuel ethanol, renewable | ||
| diesel, or MMBtu of renewable methane and 1.6 cents for each gallon | ||
| of biodiesel produced in each registered plant operated by the | ||
| producer. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 16.006(b), Agriculture Code, as amended | ||
| by Chapters 1295 (H.B. 2318) and 1312 (H.B. 2582), Acts of the 81st | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) A producer is entitled to receive from the account 20 | ||
| cents for each gallon of fuel ethanol, renewable diesel, or MMBtu of | ||
| renewable methane and 10 cents for each gallon of biodiesel | ||
| produced in each registered plant operated by the producer until | ||
| the 10th anniversary of the date production from the plant begins. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
