Bill Text: TX HB497 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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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-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Wu (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) H.B. No. 497
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2015;
May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
Resources and Economic Development; May 13, 2015, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 13, 2015,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE VOTE
YeaNayAbsentPNV
FraserX
EstesX
BirdwellX
HallX
HancockX
HinojosaX
LucioX
NicholsX
SeligerX
UrestiX
ZaffiriniX
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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 [containing] salt and
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.
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