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HLS 26RS-1269 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 704
BY REPRESENTATIVE MCMAKIN
ENVIRONMENT/WASTE TIRES: Increases the cap on fees collected for the Waste Tire
Management Dedicated Fund Account and dedicates additional revenue for a tire
buy back program
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 30:2418(G) and (I)(1)(a)(i) through (iii) and to enact R.S.
3 30:2418(H)(11), relative to waste tire fees; to increase the cap on fees the
4 Department of Environmental Quality may levy for waste tire management; to
5 dedicate one dollar from each tire sale to a tire buy back program; to authorize the
6 department to promulgate rules for the creation of a tire buy back program; and to
7 provide for related matters.
8 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
9 Section 1. R.S. 30:2418(G) and (I)(1)(a)(i) through (iii) are hereby amended and
10 reenacted and R.S. 30:2418(H)(11) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
11 §2418. Waste tires; Waste Tire Management Dedicated Fund Account
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13 G.(1) There is hereby established a statutorily dedicated fund account in the
14 state treasury to be known as the "Waste Tire Management Dedicated Fund
15 Account", hereafter referred to in this Section as the "account". Any fees collected,
16 pursuant to the secretary's rules and regulations, on the sale of tires, and any other
17 appropriations, gifts, grants, or other monies received by the Department of
18 Environmental Quality for the credit of the account, shall be remitted to the state
19 treasury and credited to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, as provided by the
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HLS 26RS-1269 ORIGINAL
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1 laws of this state and the Constitution of Louisiana. After a sufficient amount is
2 allocated from the Bond Security and Redemption Fund to pay all obligations
3 secured by the full faith and credit of the state which become due and payable within
4 any fiscal year, the treasurer shall pay into the account an amount equal to the total
5 amount previously deposited into the treasury. All interest earned on money from
6 the account and invested by the state treasurer shall be credited to the account. The
7 monies in the account shall be administered by the secretary solely for the purposes
8 of solving the state's waste tire problem. No monies from the account shall be used
9 to provide payments to waste tire processors for processing tires that are generated
10 in Louisiana when those tires are processed in any other state. Monies deposited into
11 the account shall be categorized as fees and self-generated revenue for the sole
12 purpose of reporting related to the executive budget, supporting documents, and
13 general appropriation bills and shall be available for annual appropriation by the
14 legislature.
15 (2) Out of the fees collected pursuant to Subsection I of this Section, one
16 dollar collected from each tire sale shall be used to administer a tire buy back
17 program.
18 H. The secretary shall promulgate rules, regulations, and guidelines for the
19 administration and enforcement of the waste tire program provided for in this
20 Chapter, which shall be subject to legislative review and approval by the Senate
21 Committee on Environmental Quality and the House Committee on Natural
22 Resources and Environment. The rules, regulations, and guidelines shall provide for
23 but not be limited to:
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25 (11) Creating and implementing a tire buy back program, to be funded as
26 provided in Paragraph G(2) of this Section.
27 I.(1)(a) The fee on tires authorized to be levied pursuant to R.S.
28 30:2413(A)(8) shall not exceed the following:
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1 (i) Two Three dollars and twenty-five cents per passenger/light truck/small
2 farm service tire.
3 (ii) Five Six dollars per medium truck tire.
4 (iii) Ten Eleven dollars per off-road tire.
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 704 Original 2026 Regular Session McMakin
Abstract: Increases the cap on waste tire management fees the Dept. of Environmental
Quality may levy by $1.00 and requires that the department use $1.00 from each tire
sale to fund a tire buy back program to be created by administrative rules.
Present law authorizes the Dept. of Environmental Quality to levy fees on tire sales for
deposit in the Waste Tire Management Dedicated Fund Account.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law caps the amount the department can levy on the sale of different types of tires.
Proposed law increases the cap for each category of tires sold by $1.00 as follows:
(1) For passenger/light truck/small farm service tires, from $2.25 to $3.25.
(2) For medium truck tires, from $5.00 to $6.00.
(3) For off-road tires, from $10.00 to $11.00.
Proposed law requires that $1.00 collected from each tire sale must be used to fund a tire buy
back program.
Proposed law authorizes the department to promulgate rules to create and implement a tire
buy back program.
(Amends R.S. 30:2418(G) and (I)(1)(a)(i)-(iii); Adds R.S. 30:2418(H)(11))
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