S.B. No. 1356
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the commingling of oil and gas production.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 85.046, Natural Resources
    1-4  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions contained in this section
    1-6  or elsewhere in this code or in other statutes or laws, the
    1-7  commission may permit production by commingling oil or gas or oil
    1-8  and gas from multiple stratigraphic or lenticular accumulations of
    1-9  oil or gas or oil and gas where the commission, after notice and
   1-10  opportunity for hearing, has found that producing oil or gas or oil
   1-11  and gas in a commingled state will prevent waste, promote
   1-12  conservation, or protect correlative rights.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 86.012, Natural Resources
   1-14  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-15        (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions contained in this section
   1-16  or elsewhere in this code or in other statutes or laws, the
   1-17  commission may permit production by commingling oil or gas or oil
   1-18  and gas from multiple stratigraphic or lenticular accumulations of
   1-19  oil or gas or oil and gas where the commission, after notice and
   1-20  opportunity for hearing, has found that producing oil or gas or oil
   1-21  and gas in a commingled state will prevent waste, promote
   1-22  conservation, or protect correlative rights.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.