1-1     By:  Merritt (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)                H.B. No. 1999

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 1997;

 1-3     April 18, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Natural Resources; April 28, 1997, reported favorably by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 28, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the disposition by the Railroad Commission of Texas of

 1-9     well-site equipment from a wellbore transferred to the Texas

1-10     Experimental Research and Recovery Activity.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 93.013, Natural Resources Code, is

1-13     amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

1-14           (g)  The commission may dispose of well-site equipment from a

1-15     wellbore transferred to TERRA in a commercially reasonable manner

1-16     as provided by Section 89.085(a)(2) without entering into a

1-17     contract to plug the well.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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