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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.