1-1 By: Cook (Senate Sponsor - Nixon) H.B. No. 2039 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995; 1-3 May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural 1-4 Resources; May 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 19, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to plugging notices of the Railroad Commission of Texas. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 89.043(e), Natural Resources Code, is 1-11 amended to read as follows: 1-12 (e) The commission shall file for record a copy of the 1-13 notice in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the 1-14 well is located. The notice filed with the county need not be 1-15 acknowledged. The copy of the notice filed in the office of the 1-16 county clerk must contain the section, block, survey, and abstract 1-17 number, when available to the commission, of the land on which the 1-18 well is located. The clerk shall record the notice in the real 1-19 property records of the county. The commission shall not be 1-20 charged a fee for the filing or recording of the notice. The 1-21 commission shall furnish a copy of the notice to a holder of a 1-22 lien on the well or a nonoperator on that person's request. For 1-23 purposes of title insurance policies issued under authority of 1-24 Chapter 9, Insurance Code, this notice is not a notice of 1-25 enforcement or violation of law, ordinance, or governmental 1-26 regulation unless the notice contains a legally sufficient 1-27 description of the specific land on which the well is located. 1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-33 * * * * *