1-1     By:  Cain                                             S.B. No. 1912

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 25, 1997; April 2, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;

 1-4     April 21, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 21, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to inspection of, and public awareness concerning,

 1-9     interstate hazardous liquids pipelines within the State of Texas.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 117.011, Natural Resources Code, is

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 117.011.  JURISDICTION.  The commission has jurisdiction

1-14     over all pipeline transportation of hazardous liquids or carbon

1-15     dioxide and over all hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline

1-16     facilities as provided in Chapter 601, Title 49, United States Code

1-17     (49 U.S.C. 60101 et seq.).  The commission may also seek

1-18     designation as an interstate agent to conduct safety inspections on

1-19     all interstate facilities within the borders of the state [the

1-20     Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 (Pub.L.No. 96-129)].

1-21           SECTION 2.  Section 117.012, Natural Resources Code, is

1-22     amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

1-23           (g)  The commission shall adopt rules for public education

1-24     and awareness concerning pipeline facilities and for a community

1-25     liaison for responding to emergencies.

1-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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