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Creating a crude oil disaster prevention and response fee, and providing for the deposit of the fees in certain water quality funds
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2020
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill creates a crude oil disaster prevention and response fee applied to crude oil transported out of the state by pipeline and payable by the owner or operator of a pipeline company that does not deliver its product for final use in this state. The bill requires the director of the department of natural resources to establish rules for collecting the fee. Fifty percent of the fees collected shall be deposited in the water quality infrastructure fund and the other percent of the fees collected shall be deposited in the water quality financial assistance fund.
Read the full explanation
109, the environmental protection commission is required to establish, by rule, civil penalties applicable to a violation of Code chapter 455B, which would include the failure to pay the fee created in the bill.
House subcommittee
Named February 11, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
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