By Brown                                              S.B. No. 1297
         76R6332 JJT-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to registering pipeline operators with the Railroad
 1-3     Commission of Texas.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 121.201(a), Utilities Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The railroad commission by rule may:
 1-8                 (1)  adopt safety standards for the transportation of
 1-9     gas and for gas pipeline facilities;
1-10                 (2)  require an operator that does not file operator
1-11     organization information under Section 91.142, Natural Resources
1-12     Code, to provide the  information to the commission in the form of
1-13     an application;
1-14                 (3)  require record maintenance and reports;
1-15                 (4) [(3)]  inspect records and facilities to determine
1-16     compliance with adopted safety standards;
1-17                 (5) [(4)]  make certifications and reports;
1-18                 (6) [(5)]  seek designation by the United States
1-19     secretary of transportation as an agent to conduct safety
1-20     inspections of interstate gas  pipeline facilities located in this
1-21     state; and
1-22                 (7) [(6)]  take any other requisite action in
1-23     accordance with 49 U.S.C. Section 60101 et seq., or a succeeding
1-24     law.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  (a)  In accordance with Section 311.031(c),
 2-2     Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment
 2-3     enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute,
 2-4     the text of Section 121.201(a), Utilities Code, as set out in
 2-5     Section 1 of this Act, gives effect to changes made by Chapter 950,
 2-6     Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 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.