By West                                               H.B. No. 1115
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to inspection of natural gas pipelines within school
    1-3  grounds.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Title 102, Revised Statutes, is amended by adding
    1-6  Article 6053-1a to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 6053-1a.  SCHOOL DISTRICT DISTRIBUTION PIPING TESTS.
    1-8  Prior to the start of each school year, all school districts will
    1-9  be required to test the natural gas piping systems of each facility
   1-10  to determine integrity.  All natural gas suppliers to these
   1-11  facilities will terminate service upon hazardous leakage or failure
   1-12  to test the system by the district.  The Railroad Commission of
   1-13  Texas shall adopt regulations prescribing the record keeping
   1-14  requirements necessary for compliance with this provision.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.