Bill Text: TX HB497 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
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By: Wu | 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. |