1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 1487 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 20, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 April 4, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, 1-5 Nays 0; April 4, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the repeal of the in-state need lease restriction on 1-9 the sale of casinghead gas or natural gas out of the state. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Sections 52.291 through 52.294 and 52.296, 1-12 Natural Resources Code, are repealed. 1-13 SECTION 2. The terms of any oil and gas lease executed 1-14 before the effective date of this Act that impose the requirements 1-15 of Sections 52.291 through 52.294 and 52.296, Natural Resources 1-16 Code, are null and void. 1-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-23 * * * * *