By:  Haywood                                          S.B. No. 1356
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        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.  Section 85.046(b), Natural Resources Code, is
    1-4  amended to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 85.046(b)  Notwithstanding the provisions contained in
    1-6  this section or elsewhere in this code or in other statutes or
    1-7  laws, the commission may permit production by commingling oil or
    1-8  gas or oil and gas from multiple stratigraphic or linticular
    1-9  accumulations of oil or gas or oil and gas where the commission,
   1-10  after notice and opportunity for hearing, has found that producing
   1-11  oil or gas or oil and gas in a commingled state will prevent waste,
   1-12  promote conservation, or protect correlative rights.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Section 86.012(b), Natural Resources Code, is
   1-14  amended to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 86.012(b)  Notwithstanding the provisions contained in
   1-16  this section or elsewhere in this code or in other statutes or
   1-17  laws, the commission may permit production by commingling oil or
   1-18  gas or oil and gas from multiple stratigraphic or lenticular
   1-19  accumulations of oil or gas or oil and gas where the commission,
   1-20  after notice and opportunity for hearing, has found that producing
   1-21  oil or gas or oil and gas in a commingled state will prevent waste,
   1-22  promote 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.