Bill Text: TX HB497 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of the law governing saltwater pipeline facilities located in the vicinity of public roads.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB497 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB497-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 497 | ||
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| relating to the applicability of the law governing saltwater | ||
| pipeline facilities located in the vicinity of public roads. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 91.901(1), Natural Resources Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (1) "Saltwater pipeline facility" means a pipeline | ||
| facility that conducts water that contains [ |
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| other substances and is intended to be used in drilling or operating | ||
| a well used in the exploration for or production of oil or gas, | ||
| including an injection well used for enhanced recovery operations, | ||
| or is produced during drilling or operating an oil, gas, or other | ||
| type of well. The term includes a pipeline facility that conducts | ||
| flowback and produced water from an oil or gas well on which a | ||
| hydraulic fracturing treatment has been performed to an oil and gas | ||
| waste disposal well for disposal. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 497 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 13, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 497 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 20, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
