Bill Text: TX HB33 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of certain federal laws regulating oil and gas operations within the State of Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB33 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB33-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 33 | ||
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| relating to the enforcement of certain federal laws regulating oil | ||
| and gas operations within the State of Texas. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 3, Natural Resources Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 82 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 82. ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL LAWS | ||
| Sec. 82.0101. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "oil and gas | ||
| operation" has the meaning assigned by Section 81.0523. | ||
| Sec. 82.0102. ENFORCEMENT OF CERTAIN FEDERAL LAWS | ||
| REGULATING OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS. (a) An agency of this state or a | ||
| person employed by an agency of this state may not contract with or | ||
| in any other manner provide assistance to a federal agency or | ||
| official with respect to the enforcement of a federal statute, | ||
| order, rule, or regulation purporting to regulate oil and gas | ||
| operations if the statute, order, rule, or regulation imposes a | ||
| prohibition, restriction, or other regulation that does not exist | ||
| under the laws of this state. | ||
| (b) The attorney general shall defend any agency of this | ||
| state that the federal government attempts to sue for an action or | ||
| omission consistent with the requirements of this section. | ||
| (c) This section does not prohibit a state agency from: | ||
| (1) implementing a federal law by executing authority | ||
| delegated to the state agency by a federal agency; or | ||
| (2) entering into a memorandum of understanding with a | ||
| federal agency to implement a federal law, if otherwise authorized | ||
| by state law. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 33 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 99, Nays 44, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 33 on May 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 107, Nays 34, 3 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 33 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 19, Nays | ||
| 12. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
