1-1 By: Haywood S.B. No. 315
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 24, 1995; January 25, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 February 7, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 10, Nays 0; February 7, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the testing of gas well deliverability and pressure.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 86.141, Natural Resources Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 86.141. DUTY TO TEST GAS WELLS <PRESSURE>. The
1-13 commission may require <All> persons producing gas from any gas
1-14 well to <shall> determine periodically through an appropriate test
1-15 <tests during the months of January and July of each year> the
1-16 deliverability and wellhead <open flow and rock> pressure of each
1-17 gas well from which gas is produced.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 86.142, Natural Resources Code, is
1-19 amended to read as follows:
1-20 Sec. 86.142. <PRESSURE> TEST REQUIREMENTS. A <The> test to
1-21 determine the deliverability and pressure of a gas well shall be
1-22 made:
1-23 (1) under uniform and generally recognized methods;
1-24 and
1-25 (2) <in the presence of and under the supervision of a
1-26 representative of the commission; and>
1-27 <(3)> under rules prescribed by the commission.
1-28 SECTION 3. Section 86.143, Natural Resources Code, is
1-29 amended to read as follows:
1-30 Sec. 86.143. <PRESSURE> TEST REPORTS. (a) Verified reports
1-31 of the tests to determine deliverability and pressure shall be
1-32 filed with the commission within a time period after the end of the
1-33 test period as set by the commission <on or before the 10th day of
1-34 each January and July>.
1-35 (b) <The reports shall disclose the name of the
1-36 representative of the commission who was actually present when the
1-37 tests were made.>
1-38 <(c)> The reports are a <permanent> public record. They
1-39 shall be kept on file with the commission for a period of time
1-40 determined by the commission and shall be open to the inspection
1-41 and examination of the public.
1-42 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-43 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-44 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-45 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-46 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-47 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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