By:  Haywood                                           S.B. No. 315
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the testing of gas well pressure.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 86.141, Natural Resources Code, is
    1-4  amended to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 86.141.  Duty to Test Gas Wells <Pressure>.
    1-6        The commission may require <All> persons producing gas from
    1-7  any gas well to <shall> determine periodically through an
    1-8  appropriate test <tests during the months of January and July of
    1-9  each year> the deliverability and wellhead <open flow and rock>
   1-10  pressure of each gas well from which gas is produced.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Section 86.142, Natural Resources Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 86.142.  <Pressure> Test Requirements.
   1-14        A <The> test to determine the deliverability and pressure of
   1-15  a gas well shall be made:
   1-16              (1)  under uniform and generally recognized methods;
   1-17  and
   1-18              (2)  <in the presence of and under the supervision of a
   1-19  representative of the commission; and>
   1-20              <(3)>  under rules prescribed by the commission.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  Section 86.143, Natural Resources Code, is
   1-22  amended to read as follows:
   1-23        Sec. 86.143.  <Pressure> Test Reports.
    2-1        (a)  Verified reports of the tests to determine
    2-2  deliverability and pressure shall be filed with the commission
    2-3  within a time period after the end of the test period as set by the
    2-4  commission <on or before the 10th day of each January and July>.
    2-5        (b)  <The reports shall disclose the name of the
    2-6  representative of the commission who was actually present when the
    2-7  tests were made.>
    2-8        <(c)>  The reports are a <permanent> public record.  They
    2-9  shall be kept on file with the commission for a period of time
   2-10  determined by the commission and shall be open to the inspection
   2-11  and examination of the public.
   2-12        SECTION 4.  This act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-13        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.