By:  Bivins                                  S.B. No. 1481

         97S0708/1                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to prerequisites to sale of certain natural gas outside

 1-2     the state.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Sections 52.291, 52.292, 52.293, and 52.294,

 1-5     Natural Resources Code, are repealed.

 1-6           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 1-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 1-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 1-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.