SB2044 —

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This bill amends 6 section(s) of the Texas statutes: Section 361.0151, Health and Safety Code, Section 361.041(a), Health and Safety Code, Section 361.119(c-1), Health and Safety Code, Section 361.421, Health and Safety Code, Section 361.4215, Section 361.427(b), Health and Safety Code.

• a , , product a plastic, monomer, chemical, wax, lubricant, or chemical feedstock or crude oil, diesel, gasoline, diesel and gasoline blendstock, home heating oil, ethanol, or another fuel separates, until melted and thermally decomposed and then cooled, condensed, a , , product a plastic, monomer, chemical, wax, lubricant, or chemical feedstock or crude oil, diesel, gasoline, diesel and gasoline blendstock, home heating oil, ethanol, or another fuel separates, means the legitimate use, reuse, or reclamation of solid waste → materials or valuable products plastic monomers, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, or chemical feedstocks and other basic hydrocarbons materials or valuable products plastic monomers, chemicals, naphtha, waxes, or plastic and chemical feedstocks and other basic hydrocarbons has the meaning assigned by Section 361.421

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• Section 361.0151, Health and Safety Code

  (c) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission or another political subdivision of this state that establishes goals or requirements for recycling or the use of recycled material must base those goals or requirements on the definitions and principles established by Subchapter N. This subsection does not apply to a program described by Subchapter Y or Z.

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• Section 361.041(a), Health and Safety Code

  a , , product a plastic, monomer, chemical, wax, lubricant, or chemical feedstock or crude oil, diesel, gasoline, diesel and gasoline blendstock, home heating oil, ethanol, or another fuel → materials or valuable products plastic monomers, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, or chemical feedstocks and other basic hydrocarbons

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• Section 361.119(c-1), Health and Safety Code

  for subsequent beneficial use → into products for subsequent beneficial use

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• Section 361.421, Health and Safety Code

  , , , industrial waste, or hazardous waste post-use polymers and recoverable feedstocks used in pyrolysis or gasification which meets the requirements for recycled material content as prescribed by described in → can be or materials or valuable post-use polymers or or that are certified under a mass balance attribution system identified by the commission under Section 361.4215 recycled plastics (6-a) "Recycled plastics" means products that are produced from: (A) mechanical recycling of post-use polymers; or (B) nonmechanical recycling of post-use polymers certified under a mass balance attribution system identified by the commission under Section 361.4215. that is eligible to be considered a recycled product under under or feedstocks used The term does not include incineration of plastics or waste-to-energy processes.

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• Section 361.4215

  Sec. 361.4215. MASS BALANCE ATTRIBUTION. The commission by rule shall identify third-party certification systems for mass balance attribution that may be used for the purposes of Sections 361.421(6) and (6-a), such as the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification system.

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• Section 361.427(b), Health and Safety Code

  or post-use polymer

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