By Cook                                               H.B. No. 2039
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to plugging notices of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 89.043(e), Natural Resources Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (e)  The commission shall file for record a copy of the
    1-7  notice in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the
    1-8  well is located.  The notice filed with the county need not be
    1-9  acknowledged.  The copy of the notice filed in the office of the
   1-10  county clerk must contain the section, block, survey, and abstract
   1-11  number, when available to the commission, of the land on which the
   1-12  well is located.  The clerk shall record the notice in the real
   1-13  property records of the county.  The commission shall not be
   1-14  charged a fee for the filing or recording of the notice.  The
   1-15  commission shall furnish  a copy of the notice to a holder of a
   1-16  lien on the well or a nonoperator on that person's request.  For
   1-17  purposes of title insurance policies issued under authority of
   1-18  Chapter 9, Insurance Code, this notice is not a notice of
   1-19  enforcement or violation of law, ordinance, or governmental
   1-20  regulation unless the notice contains a legally sufficient
   1-21  description of the specific land on which the  well is located.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.