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.