By Armbrister                                          S.B. No. 945
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the powers of a limited liability company.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Article 2.02, Texas Limited Liability Company Act
 1-5     (Article 1528n, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
 1-6     adding Section D to read as follows:
 1-7           D.  A limited liability company engaged as a common carrier
 1-8     in the pipeline business for transporting oil, oil products, gas,
 1-9     carbon dioxide, salt brine, fuller's earth, sand, clay, liquefied
1-10     minerals, or other mineral solutions has all of the rights and
1-11     powers conferred by Sections 111.019-111.022, Natural Resources
1-12     Code.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.