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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1297 passed the Senate on
         April 8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1297 passed the House on
         May 25, 1999, 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