S.B. No. 1438
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the definition of a marginal gas well.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 86.091, Natural Resources Code, is
    1-4  amended to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 86.091.  MARGINAL GAS WELL AND LIMITS ON WELL
    1-6  RESTRICTIONS.  A "marginal gas well," as applied to a well
    1-7  classified by the commission as a gas well, means a well that is
    1-8  incapable of producing under normal operating conditions more than
    1-9  250,000 cubic feet of gas per day.  None of the provisions of this
   1-10  chapter shall require the commission to limit the production from a
   1-11  gas well with a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic feet of gas
   1-12  or less to a quantity less than its actual deliverability.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.