1-1  By:  Sims                                              S.B. No. 141
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 1993; January 21, 1993,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  March 8, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 8, 1993,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Sims               x                               
   1-10        Truan              x                               
   1-11        Armbrister         x                               
   1-12        Barrientos         x                               
   1-13        Bivins             x                               
   1-14        Brown              x                               
   1-15        Carriker           x                               
   1-16        Lucio              x                               
   1-17        Montford           x                               
   1-18        Ratliff            x                               
   1-19        Shelley            x                               
   1-20  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 141                     By:  Sims
   1-21                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-22                                AN ACT
   1-23  relating to determination of demand for and volume of gas in a
   1-24  reservoir.
   1-25        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-26        SECTION 1.  Section 86.085, Natural Resources Code, is
   1-27  amended to read as follows:
   1-28        Sec. 86.085.  DETERMINATION OF DEMAND AND VOLUME.  On or
   1-29  before the 25th <20th> day of each month, the commission, after
   1-30  notice and hearing, shall determine:
   1-31              (1)  the lawful market demand for gas to be produced
   1-32  from each reservoir during the following month; and
   1-33              (2)  the volume of gas that can be produced without
   1-34  waste from the reservoir and each well in the reservoir during the
   1-35  following month.
   1-36        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-37  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-38  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-39  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-40  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-41  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-42  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-44                                                         Austin,
   1-45  Texas
   1-46                                                         March 8, 1993
   1-47  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-48  President of the Senate
   1-49  Sir:
   1-50  We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
   1-51  No. 141, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-52  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-53  not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
   1-54  do pass and be printed.
   1-55                                                         Sims,
   1-56  Chairman
   1-57                               * * * * *
   1-58                               WITNESSES
   1-59                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-60  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-61  Name:  David Garlick                                           x
   1-62  Representing:  Railroad Commission
   1-63  City:  Austin
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   1-65  Name:  Ben W. Sebree                             x
   1-66  Representing:  Tx Mid-continent Oil & Gas
   1-67  City:  Austin
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