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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