By:  Sims                                              S.B. No. 141
       73R1414 JJT-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to determination of demand for and volume of gas in a
    1-3  reservoir.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 86.085, Natural Resources Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 86.085.  DETERMINATION OF DEMAND AND VOLUME.  On or
    1-8  before the last <20th> day of each month, the commission, after
    1-9  notice and hearing, shall determine:
   1-10              (1)  the lawful market demand for gas to be produced
   1-11  from each reservoir during the following month; and
   1-12              (2)  the volume of gas that can be produced without
   1-13  waste from the reservoir and each well in the reservoir during the
   1-14  following month.
   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,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.