1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the applicability of production limitations to certain

 1-3     marginal gas wells.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 86.091, Natural Resources Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 86.091.  MARGINAL GAS WELL AND LIMITS ON WELL

 1-8     RESTRICTIONS.  A "marginal gas well," as applied to a well

 1-9     classified by the commission as a gas well, means a well that is

1-10     incapable of producing under normal operating conditions more than

1-11     250,000 cubic feet of gas per day.  None of the provisions of this

1-12     chapter shall require the commission to limit the production from a

1-13     marginal gas well [with a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic

1-14     feet of gas or less] to a quantity less than its actual

1-15     deliverability if the well:

1-16                 (1)  has a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic feet

1-17     of gas or less; or

1-18                 (2)  is in a field for which special field rules are

1-19     not in effect.

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,

 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1178 was passed by the House on April

         18, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 0, 2 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1178 was passed by the Senate on May

         12, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor