1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 1438 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 13, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 April 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, 1-5 Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the definition of a marginal gas well. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 86.091, Natural Resources Code, is 1-11 amended to read as follows: 1-12 Sec. 86.091. MARGINAL GAS WELL AND LIMITS ON WELL 1-13 RESTRICTIONS. A "marginal gas well," as applied to a well 1-14 classified by the commission as a gas well, means a well that is 1-15 incapable of producing under normal operating conditions more than 1-16 250,000 cubic feet of gas per day. None of the provisions of this 1-17 chapter shall require the commission to limit the production from a 1-18 gas well with a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic feet of gas 1-19 or less to a quantity less than its actual deliverability. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-25 * * * * *