By Lewis of Orange                                    H.B. No. 1782
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the reporting of natural gas volumes.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 121.102 Subchapter C, Utilities Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Subsection (7) to read as follows:
 1-6           (7)  Any requirement that the reporting entity report gas
 1-7     volumes or quantities pursuant to this or any other statute or rule
 1-8     may be satisfied by reporting either the number of cubic feet or
 1-9     the number of British thermal units as shown on the readily
1-10     available books and records of the reporting entity.
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect 09-01-99.
1-12           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY CLAUSE.  The importance of this
1-13     legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both
1-14     houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
1-15     the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.