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      By Holzheauser                                  H.B. No. 1178

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the definition of a marginal gas well.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 86.091, Natural Resources Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 86.091.  MARGINAL GAS WELL AND LIMITS ON WELL

 1-7     RESTRICTIONS.  A "marginal gas well," as applied to a well

 1-8     classified by the commission as a gas well, means a well that is

 1-9     incapable of producing under normal operating conditions more than

1-10     250,000 cubic feet of gas per day.  None of the provisions of this

1-11     chapter shall require the commission to limit the production from a

1-12     marginal gas well [with a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic

1-13     feet of gas or less] to a quantity less than its actual

1-14     deliverability.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.