Bill Text: TX HB991 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the display of notice of federal and state tax rates for motor fuel sold at retail.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 1/1/16 [HB991 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB991-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 991 | ||
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| relating to the display of notice of federal and state tax rates for | ||
| motor fuel sold at retail. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 17, Agriculture Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 17.0515 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 17.0515. NOTICE OF MOTOR FUEL TAX RATES. (a) The | ||
| department shall display on each motor fuel pump from which motor | ||
| fuel is sold at retail a notice of the current rates of the federal | ||
| and state motor fuel taxes. The notice must: | ||
| (1) display the current rate of each tax, in cents per | ||
| gallon, for each type of motor fuel; | ||
| (2) be displayed on each face of the motor fuel pump on | ||
| which the price of the motor fuel sold from the pump is displayed; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) be displayed in a clear, conspicuous, and | ||
| prominent manner. | ||
| (b) The department shall include the notice required under | ||
| Subsection (a) with any other notice displayed or required by | ||
| department rule to be displayed, including a "Fuel Feedback?" | ||
| sticker. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Department of Agriculture is not required to | ||
| display a notice on a motor fuel pump under Section 17.0515, | ||
| Agriculture Code, as added by this Act, until the later of the date: | ||
| (1) the department is at the pump's location for an | ||
| inspection or other official business; or | ||
| (2) the department's inventory of "Fuel Feedback?" | ||
| stickers on hand on the effective date of this Act is used and the | ||
| department acquires new stickers. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2016. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 991 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 991 on May 29, 2015, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 991 on May 31, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, | ||
| Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 991 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 23, Nays | ||
| 8; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 991 on May 31, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1, 1 | ||
| present, not voting | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
