1-1        By:  Haywood                                    S.B. No. 1356
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  April 7, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 7, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the commingling of oil and gas production.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 85.046, Natural Resources
   1-11  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-12        (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions contained in this section
   1-13  or elsewhere in this code or in other statutes or laws, the
   1-14  commission may permit production by commingling oil or gas or oil
   1-15  and gas from multiple stratigraphic or lenticular accumulations of
   1-16  oil or gas or oil and gas where the commission, after notice and
   1-17  opportunity for hearing, has found that producing oil or gas or oil
   1-18  and gas in a commingled state will prevent waste, promote
   1-19  conservation, or protect correlative rights.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 86.012, Natural Resources
   1-21  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-22        (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions contained in this section
   1-23  or elsewhere in this code or in other statutes or laws, the
   1-24  commission may permit production by commingling oil or gas or oil
   1-25  and gas from multiple stratigraphic or lenticular accumulations of
   1-26  oil or gas or oil and gas where the commission, after notice and
   1-27  opportunity for hearing, has found that producing oil or gas or oil
   1-28  and gas in a commingled state will prevent waste, promote
   1-29  conservation, or protect correlative rights.
   1-30        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-31        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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