By: Sims S.B. No. 141
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to determination of demand for and volume of gas in a
1-2 reservoir.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 86.085, Natural Resources Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 86.085. DETERMINATION OF DEMAND AND VOLUME. On or
1-7 before the 25th <20th> day of each month, the commission, after
1-8 notice and hearing, shall determine:
1-9 (1) the lawful market demand for gas to be produced
1-10 from each reservoir during the following month; and
1-11 (2) the volume of gas that can be produced without
1-12 waste from the reservoir and each well in the reservoir during the
1-13 following month.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.