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Amend CSSB 18 (house committee printing) by inserting the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumbering existing SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____. Section 181.004, Utilities Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 181.004. CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY. (a) A gas or electric corporation has the right and power to enter on, condemn, and appropriate the land, right-of-way, easement, or other property of any person or corporation.

(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or other law, a gas corporation may not condemn or appropriate property for a project related to constructing a gathering or transmission pipeline for transporting gas for a single producer.

SECTION ____. Section 181.004, Utilities Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a condemnation proceeding filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A condemnation proceeding filed before the effective date of this Act is subject to the law in effect on the date of filing, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.