By: Bivins S.B. No. 1487 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the repeal of the in-state need lease restriction on 1-2 the sale of casinghead gas or natural gas out of the state. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 52.291 through 52.294 and 52.296, 1-5 Natural Resources Code, are repealed. 1-6 SECTION 2. The terms of any oil and gas lease executed 1-7 before the effective date of this Act that impose the requirements 1-8 of Sections 52.291 through 52.294 and 52.296, Natural Resources 1-9 Code, are null and void. 1-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.