H.B. No. 1195




AN ACT

relating to the fee for a reissued certificate of compliance for an 
oil lease or gas well.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 85.167(a), Natural Resources Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  If a certificate of compliance for an oil lease or gas 
well has been canceled for violation of one or more commission 
rules, the commission may not issue a new certificate of compliance 
until the owner or operator submits to the commission a 
nonrefundable fee of $300 for each severance or seal order issued 
for the lease or well [$100].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1195 was passed by the House on April 
2, 2003, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 1195 was passed by the Senate on May 
28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor