By West                                                H.B. No. 843
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the regulation of the transportation of carbon dioxide.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 117.001 (3) & (4), Natural Resources
    1-5  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (3)  "Transportation of hazardous liquids or carbon dioxide"
    1-7  means the movement of hazardous liquids or carbon dioxide by
    1-8  pipeline, or their storage incidental to movement, except that it
    1-9  does not include any such movement through gathering lines in rural
   1-10  locations or production, refining, or manufacturing facilities or
   1-11  storage or in-plant piping systems associated with any of those
   1-12  facilities.
   1-13        (4)  "Pipeline facilities" include new and existing pipe,
   1-14  rights-of-way, and any equipment, facility, or building used or
   1-15  intended for use in the transportation of hazardous liquids or
   1-16  carbon dioxide.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 117.011, Natural Resources Code, is
   1-18  amended to read as follows:
   1-19        Sec. 117.011.  Jurisdiction.  The commission has jurisdiction
   1-20  over all pipeline transportation of hazardous liquids or carbon
   1-21  dioxide and over all hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline
   1-22  facilities as provided in the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act
   1-23  of 1979 (Pub.L.No. 96-129).
    2-1        SECTION 3.  Sections 117.012 (a) & (b), Natural Resources
    2-2  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    2-3        (a)  The commission shall adopt rules that include safety
    2-4  standards for and practices applicable to the intrastate
    2-5  transportation of hazardous liquids or carbon dioxide by pipeline
    2-6  and intrastate hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline
    2-7  facilities.
    2-8        (b)  Rules that adopt safety standards do not apply to
    2-9  movement of hazardous liquids or carbon dioxide through gathering
   2-10  lines in rural locations or production, refining, or manufacturing
   2-11  facilities or storage or in-plant piping systems associated with
   2-12  any of those facilities.
   2-13        SECTION 4.  Sections 117.013 (a) & (c), Natural Resources
   2-14  Code, are amended to read as follows:
   2-15        (a)  Each owner or operator of a pipeline engaged in the
   2-16  transportation of hazardous liquids or carbon dioxide within this
   2-17  state shall maintain records, make reports, and provide any
   2-18  information the commission may require under the jurisdiction
   2-19  granted by the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979
   2-20  (Pub.L.No. 96-129) and this chapter.
   2-21        (c)  The commission may require the owners or operators of
   2-22  hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline facilities to prepare
   2-23  and make available for inspection by its employees or agents or
   2-24  file for approval a procedural manual for each such facility in
   2-25  accordance with the requirements of Title 49, Part 195.402, Code of
    3-1  Federal Regulations.
    3-2        SECTION 5.  Section 117.014 (a), Natural Resources Code, is
    3-3  amended to read as follows:
    3-4        (a)  The commission and its employees and designated agents
    3-5  may enter property on which is located pipeline facilities or any
    3-6  other property relating to the transportation of hazardous liquids
    3-7  or carbon dioxide by pipeline and may inspect and examine the
    3-8  records and property to the extent relevant to determine if a
    3-9  person is acting in compliance with this chapter and rules adopted
   3-10  by the commission under this chapter.
   3-11        SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   3-12        SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.