By:  Barrientos                                        S.B. No. 271
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas to
    1-2  implement conservation and distribution plans for alternative
    1-3  fuels.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 113.241, Natural Resources Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 113.241.  Rules Regarding Research and Education
    1-8        The commission may adopt all necessary rules relating to the
    1-9  purposes of this subchapter and activities regarding <conducting
   1-10  research and educating the public regarding> the use of LPG and
   1-11  other environmentally beneficial alternative fuels that are or have
   1-12  the potential to be effective in improving the quality of air in
   1-13  this State.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Section 113.243 (c)(3), Natural Resources Code,
   1-15  is amended to read as follows:
   1-16        (3)  developing and implementing conservation and
   1-17  distribution plans to minimize the frequency and severity of
   1-18  disruptions in the supply of alternative fuels.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-20  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.