83R6219 JAM-F
 
  By: Keffer H.B. No. 2571
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the inspection of certain information regarding the
  production, transportation, sale, and marketing of oil and gas from
  state land; imposing an administrative penalty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 52.135, Natural Resources Code, is
  amended by adding Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and (e) to read as
  follows:
         (a-1)  Not later than the 60th day after the date of receipt
  of a request from the commissioner, the attorney general, or the
  governor for information described by Subsection (a), a lessee
  shall produce the requested information.
         (a-2)  A lessee who is unable to produce requested
  information in the time required by Subsection (a-1) must, not
  later than the 30th day after the date of receipt of a request for
  the information, reply in writing to the requestor and state the
  reason for the unavailability of the information and when the
  information will be available. A requestor who receives a reply
  under this subsection may extend the deadline for the production of
  the requested information.
         (e)  The commissioner may assess an administrative penalty
  against a lessee who fails to produce requested information in the
  time required under Subsection (a-1) or (a-2). The penalty may not
  exceed:
               (1)  $100 a day for each day after the deadline for
  producing the information that the lessee fails to produce the
  information until the 60th day after the deadline; and
               (2)  $1,000 a day for each day after the 60th day after
  the deadline for producing the information that the lessee fails to
  produce the information.
         SECTION 2.  Section 52.135, Natural Resources Code, as
  amended by this Act, applies only to a request for information made
  under that section on or after the effective date of this Act. A
  request for information made under that section before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date of the request, and the former law is continued in effect for
  that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.