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HB405 • 2025

Relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane, biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

Relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane, biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

Agriculture
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hayes
Last action
2025-05-05
Official status
05/05/2025 S Referred to Economic Development
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane, biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

Relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane, biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane, biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  2. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Economic Development

  3. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  4. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  5. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1017

  6. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  7. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  8. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  9. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  10. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  11. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  12. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#872

  13. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar

  14. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Withdrawn from calendar (contested)

  15. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.

  16. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  17. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Transferred to Calendars Committee

  18. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  19. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  20. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  21. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  22. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  23. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  24. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  25. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

  26. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  27. 2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  28. 2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  29. 2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  30. 2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  31. 2025-02-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  32. 2025-02-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Agriculture & Livestock

  33. 2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane, biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text
89(R) HB 405 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

89R915 MP-F

By: Hayes

H.B. No. 405

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane,

biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 16.005(a), Agriculture Code, as amended

by Chapters 1295 (H.B. 2318) and 1312 (H.B. 2582), Acts of the 81st

Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted to read as

follows:

(a) The office shall impose a fee on each producer in an

amount equal to 3.2 cents for each gallon of fuel ethanol, renewable

diesel, or MMBtu of renewable methane and 1.6 cents for each gallon

of biodiesel produced in each registered plant operated by the

producer.

SECTION 2. Section 16.006(b), Agriculture Code, as amended

by Chapters 1295 (H.B. 2318) and 1312 (H.B. 2582), Acts of the 81st

Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted to read as

follows:

(b) A producer is entitled to receive from the account 20

cents for each gallon of fuel ethanol, renewable diesel, or MMBtu of

renewable methane and 10 cents for each gallon of biodiesel

produced in each registered plant operated by the producer until

the 10th anniversary of the date production from the plant begins.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.