1-1 By: Sims S.B. No. 172
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 26, 1993; January 27, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 May 7, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 7, 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. 172 By: Sims
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to pipeline easements.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 111, Natural Resources
1-26 Code, is amended by adding Section 111.0194 to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 111.0194. PIPELINE EASEMENTS. (a) Unless the terms of
1-28 the grant or the condemnation judgment expressly provide otherwise,
1-29 or the easement rights otherwise prescriptively owned through
1-30 actual use are greater, an easement created through grant or
1-31 through the power of eminent domain for the benefit of a single
1-32 common carrier pipeline which exercises the power of eminent domain
1-33 under Section 111.019 of this code as of the effective date of this
1-34 section is presumed to create an easement in favor of the common
1-35 carrier pipeline, or a successor in interest to the common carrier
1-36 pipeline, that extends only a width of 50 feet as to each pipeline
1-37 laid under the grant or judgment in eminent domain prior to
1-38 September 1, 1993.
1-39 (b) The presumption in Subsection (a) of this section is not
1-40 applicable to pipeline easements of a common carrier pipeline
1-41 granted under the terms of an oil and gas lease or oil, gas, and
1-42 mineral lease, or to any easement which authorizes the construction
1-43 of gathering lines.
1-44 (c) The presumption set out in Subsection (a) of this
1-45 section on the limitation of width may be rebutted by evidence on
1-46 behalf of the common carrier pipeline that a greater width is
1-47 reasonably needed for purposes of operation, construction of
1-48 additional lines under the grant or judgment in an eminent domain
1-49 proceeding, maintenance, repair, replacement, safety, surveillance,
1-50 or as a buffer zone for protection of the safe operation of the
1-51 common carrier pipeline, together with such other evidence as a
1-52 court may deem relevant to establish the extent of an easement in
1-53 excess of 50 feet in width.
1-54 (d) The presumption in Subsection (a) of this section shall
1-55 apply separately as to each pipeline under a grant or judgment
1-56 which allows more than one pipeline on the subservient estate.
1-57 (e) This section shall not be deemed to limit any rights of
1-58 ingress to or egress from easements that may exist under common
1-59 law.
1-60 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-61 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-62 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-63 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-64 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-65 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-66 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-67 * * * * *
1-68 Austin,
2-1 Texas
2-2 May 7, 1993
2-3 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-4 President of the Senate
2-5 Sir:
2-6 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
2-7 No. 172, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-8 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-9 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
2-10 do pass and be printed.
2-11 Sims,
2-12 Chairman
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2-14 WITNESSES
2-15 FOR AGAINST ON
2-16 ___________________________________________________________________
2-17 Name: Ken Rigsbee x
2-18 Representing: Phillips Petroleum
2-19 City: Austin
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2-21 Name: Thomas Haynes, Jr. x
2-22 Representing: Phillips Petroleum
2-23 City: McKinney
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2-25 Name: George Patterson x
2-26 Representing: Phillips Petroleum
2-27 City: Houston
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2-29 Name: Baxter Lee Thorman x
2-30 Representing: Phillips Pipe Line Co.
2-31 City: Bartlesville, OK
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2-33 Name: Shannon Ratliff x
2-34 Representing: Phillips Petroleum
2-35 City: Austin
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2-37 Name: David Felder x
2-38 Representing: Phillips Petroleum
2-39 City: Borger
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2-41 Name: Wayne Wienstroer x
2-42 Representing: Phillips Petroleum
2-43 City: Farmington, NM
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2-45 Name: Patrick Mullens x
2-46 Representing: GPM Gas Corp
2-47 City: Austin
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2-49 Name: Mary McDaniel x
2-50 Representing: Railroad Commission
2-51 City: Austin
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2-53 Name: Patrick Nugent x
2-54 Representing: Ass of TX Intrastate Natl Gas
2-55 City: Austin
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2-57 Name: Phillip Dothmann x
2-58 Representing: Self
2-59 City: San Angelo
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2-61 FOR AGAINST ON
2-62 ___________________________________________________________________
2-63 Name: Glenn R. Wessels x
2-64 Representing: W-3 Kimble Co.
2-65 City: Lake Jackson
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2-67 Name: David Frederick x
2-68 Representing: Central TX Landowners Coaliti
2-69 City: Austin
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3-1 Name: Richard L. Mcelva x
3-2 Representing:
3-3 City: Angleton
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3-5 Name: Phillis Jean West x
3-6 Representing:
3-7 City: Fredericksburg
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3-9 Name: Sharon Sagebiel x
3-10 Representing: Self
3-11 City: Georgetown
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3-13 Name: Sophie Werchan x
3-14 Representing: Self
3-15 City: Austin
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3-17 Name: James Werchan x
3-18 Representing: Self
3-19 City: Austin
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3-21 Name: Clarence Rose x
3-22 Representing: Self
3-23 City: Fredericksburg
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3-25 Name: Margaret R. Wessels x
3-26 Representing: W-3 Ranch
3-27 City: Lake Jackson
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3-29 Name: Cynthia King x
3-30 Representing: W-3 Ranch
3-31 City: Bay City
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3-33 Name: Michael D. Wessels x
3-34 Representing: W-3 Ranch
3-35 City: Lake Jackson
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3-37 Name: Evelyn Rose x
3-38 Representing: Self
3-39 City: Fredericksburg
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3-41 Name: Ken Kramer x
3-42 Representing: Sierra Club
3-43 City: Austin
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3-45 Name: Charles Spangler x
3-46 Representing: Self
3-47 City: Fredericksburg
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3-49 Name: Randolph Sagebiel x
3-50 Representing: Self
3-51 City: Georgetown
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3-53 Name: Ken Bull x
3-54 Representing: McCulloch County Property Own
3-55 City: Rochelle
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3-57 Name: David Garrett x
3-58 Representing: Landowners
3-59 City: Lampasas
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3-61 FOR AGAINST ON
3-62 ___________________________________________________________________
3-63 Name: Mary Katheryn Strickland x
3-64 Representing: Self
3-65 City: Austin
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3-67 Name: Betty Jean Dickerson x
3-68 Representing: Self
3-69 City: Austin
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4-1 Name: John Keith x
4-2 Representing: Self
4-3 City: McGregor
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4-5 Name: Dawn Spangler x
4-6 Representing: Self
4-7 City: Fredericksburg
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4-9 Name: Sherry Keyser Caffey x
4-10 Representing: Family
4-11 City: Spicewood
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