Bill Text: TX SB910 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a grant program to support the elimination of illegally disposed of scrap tires.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-24 - Filed [SB910 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB910-Introduced.html
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| By: Blanco | S.B. No. 910 | |
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| relating to the establishment of a grant program to support the | ||
| elimination of illegally disposed of scrap tires. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 361, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 361.0315 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 361.0315. SCRAP TIRE REMEDIATION GRANT PROGRAM. (a) | ||
| In this section, "scrap tire" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 361.112. | ||
| (b) The commission may develop a scrap tire remediation | ||
| grant program to award grants from the scrap tire remediation grant | ||
| account established by this section to counties for the purpose of | ||
| reducing the number of scrap tires disposed of in inland or coastal | ||
| water and onto public rights-of-way and other public land. | ||
| (c) The commission may award a grant under the scrap tire | ||
| remediation grant program to a county to be used for: | ||
| (1) identifying and prosecuting violators of Section | ||
| 365.012, as that section relates to the illegal disposal of scrap | ||
| tires; | ||
| (2) providing information to the public to discourage | ||
| the illegal disposal of scrap tires; and | ||
| (3) removing and properly disposing of illegally | ||
| disposed of scrap tires. | ||
| (d) The scrap tire remediation grant account is a dedicated | ||
| account in the general revenue fund and consists of: | ||
| (1) appropriations of money to the account by the | ||
| legislature; | ||
| (2) gifts, grants, including federal grants, and other | ||
| donations received for the account; and | ||
| (3) interest earned on the investment of money in the | ||
| account. | ||
| (e) Money in the scrap tire remediation grant account may be | ||
| used by the commission only to: | ||
| (1) award grants under this section; and | ||
| (2) administer the scrap tire remediation grant | ||
| program under this section. | ||
| (f) If the commission develops a scrap tire remediation | ||
| grant program under this section, the commission shall adopt rules | ||
| for the administration of that program. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
