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1-12     Natural Resources Code, are repealed.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.

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