H.B. No. 2039 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.