S.B. No. 1357
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to surface commingling of production of oil or gas or oil
    1-2  and gas.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 85.046, Natural Resources Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  The commission, after notice and opportunity for
    1-7  hearing, may permit surface commingling of production of oil or gas
    1-8  or oil and gas from two or more tracts of land producing from the
    1-9  same reservoir or from one or more tracts of land producing from
   1-10  different reservoirs if the commission finds that the commingling
   1-11  will prevent waste, promote conservation, or protect correlative
   1-12  rights.  The commission may permit the commingling regardless of
   1-13  whether the tracts or commission-designated reservoirs have the
   1-14  same working or royalty interest ownership.  The amount of
   1-15  production attributable to each tract or commission-designated
   1-16  reservoir shall be determined in a manner consistent with this
   1-17  title.  The commission has broad discretion in administering this
   1-18  subsection and shall adopt and enforce rules or orders as necessary
   1-19  to administer this subsection.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.