AN ACT
1-1 relating to hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline facilities.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 117.011, Natural Resources Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 117.011. JURISDICTION. (a) The commission has
1-6 jurisdiction over all pipeline transportation of hazardous liquids
1-7 or carbon dioxide and over all hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide
1-8 pipeline facilities as provided by 49 U.S.C. Section 60101 et seq
1-9 [in the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 (Pub.L. No.
1-10 96-129)].
1-11 (b) The commission may seek designation by the United States
1-12 secretary of transportation as an agent to conduct safety
1-13 inspections of interstate hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide
1-14 pipeline facilities located in this state.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 117.012, Natural Resources Code, is
1-16 amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-17 (g) The commission shall adopt rules regarding:
1-18 (1) public education and awareness concerning
1-19 hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline facilities; and
1-20 (2) community liaison for the purpose of responding to
1-21 an emergency concerning a hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide
1-22 pipeline facility.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1912 passed the Senate on
April 28, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 26, 1997, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1912 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 23, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 145,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor