1-1     By:  Holzheauser (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)           H.B. No. 1178

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;

 1-3     April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Natural Resources; May 1, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the applicability of production limitations to certain

 1-9     marginal gas wells.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 86.091, Natural Resources Code, is

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 86.091.  MARGINAL GAS WELL AND LIMITS ON WELL

1-14     RESTRICTIONS.  A "marginal gas well," as applied to a well

1-15     classified by the commission as a gas well, means a well that is

1-16     incapable of producing under normal operating conditions more than

1-17     250,000 cubic feet of gas per day.  None of the provisions of this

1-18     chapter shall require the commission to limit the production from a

1-19     marginal gas well [with a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic

1-20     feet of gas or less] to a quantity less than its actual

1-21     deliverability if the well:

1-22                 (1)  has a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic feet

1-23     of gas or less; or

1-24                 (2)  is in a field for which special field rules are

1-25     not in effect.

1-26           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-31     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-32     passage, and it is so enacted.

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