S.B. No. 680 AN ACT 1-1 relating to allowing a limited partnership to operate as a common 1-2 carrier for the transportation by pipeline of certain materials. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 1.09, Texas Revised Limited Partnership 1-5 Act (Article 6132a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) A limited partnership engaged as a common carrier in the 1-8 pipeline business for transporting oil, oil products, gas, carbon 1-9 dioxide, salt brine, fuller's earth, sand, clay, liquefied 1-10 minerals, or other mineral solutions has all of the rights and 1-11 powers conferred by Sections 111.019 through 111.022, Natural 1-12 Resources Code. A limited partnership that is a common carrier as 1-13 defined in Section 111.002, Natural Resources Code, has in addition 1-14 all of the obligations conferred by Sections 111.001 through 1-15 111.025, Natural Resources Code. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.