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 Sections 52.291, 52.292, 52.293, and 52.294, 1-5 Natural Resources Code, are repealed. 1-6 SECTION 2.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.