By: Brown S.B. No. 1297
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to registering pipeline operators with the Railroad
1-2 Commission of Texas.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 121.201, Utilities Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The railroad commission by rule may:
1-7 (1) adopt safety standards for the transportation of
1-8 gas and for gas pipeline facilities;
1-9 (2) require an operator that does not file operator
1-10 organization information under Section 91.142, Natural Resources
1-11 Code, to provide the information to the commission in the form of
1-12 an application;
1-13 (3) require record maintenance and reports;
1-14 (4) [(3)] inspect records and facilities to determine
1-15 compliance with adopted safety standards;
1-16 (5) [(4)] make certifications and reports;
1-17 (6) [(5)] seek designation by the United States
1-18 secretary of transportation as an agent to conduct safety
1-19 inspections of interstate gas pipeline facilities located in this
1-20 state; and
1-21 (7) [(6)] take any other requisite action in
1-22 accordance with 49 U.S.C. Section 60101 et seq., or a succeeding
1-23 law.
1-24 SECTION 2. (a) In accordance with Subsection (c), Section
2-1 311.031, Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive
2-2 amendment enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended
2-3 statute, the text of Subsection (a), Section 121.201, Utilities
2-4 Code, as set out in Section 1 of this Act, gives effect to changes
2-5 made by Chapter 950, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
2-6 1997.
2-7 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
2-8 another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
2-9 relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
2-10 codes.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-17 passage, and it is so enacted.