1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 1297
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 March 25, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; March 25, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to registering pipeline operators with the Railroad
1-9 Commission of Texas.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 121.201, Utilities Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The railroad commission by rule may:
1-14 (1) adopt safety standards for the transportation of
1-15 gas and for gas pipeline facilities;
1-16 (2) require an operator that does not file operator
1-17 organization information under Section 91.142, Natural Resources
1-18 Code, to provide the information to the commission in the form of
1-19 an application;
1-20 (3) require record maintenance and reports;
1-21 (4) [(3)] inspect records and facilities to determine
1-22 compliance with adopted safety standards;
1-23 (5) [(4)] make certifications and reports;
1-24 (6) [(5)] seek designation by the United States
1-25 secretary of transportation as an agent to conduct safety
1-26 inspections of interstate gas pipeline facilities located in this
1-27 state; and
1-28 (7) [(6)] take any other requisite action in
1-29 accordance with 49 U.S.C. Section 60101 et seq., or a succeeding
1-30 law.
1-31 SECTION 2. (a) In accordance with Subsection (c), Section
1-32 311.031, Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive
1-33 amendment enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended
1-34 statute, the text of Subsection (a), Section 121.201, Utilities
1-35 Code, as set out in Section 1 of this Act, gives effect to changes
1-36 made by Chapter 950, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
1-37 1997.
1-38 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
1-39 another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
1-40 relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
1-41 codes.
1-42 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
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