Bill Text: TX HB3246 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the treatment and recycling for beneficial use of certain waste arising out of or incidental to the drilling for or production of oil or gas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3246 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3246-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3246 |
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relating to the treatment and recycling for beneficial use of | ||
certain waste arising out of or incidental to the drilling for or | ||
production of oil or gas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 122.002, Natural Resources Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 122.002. OWNERSHIP OF FLUID OIL AND GAS WASTE | ||
TRANSFERRED FOR TREATMENT AND SUBSEQUENT BENEFICIAL USE. Unless | ||
otherwise expressly provided by an oil or gas lease, a surface use | ||
agreement, a contract, a bill of sale, or another [ |
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binding document: | ||
(1) when fluid oil and gas waste is produced and used | ||
by or transferred to a person who takes possession of that waste for | ||
the purpose of treating the waste for a subsequent beneficial use, | ||
the waste [ |
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of the person who takes possession of it for the purpose of treating | ||
the waste for subsequent beneficial use until the person transfers | ||
the waste or treated waste to another person for disposal or use; | ||
and | ||
(2) when a person who takes possession of fluid oil and | ||
gas waste for the purpose of treating the waste for a subsequent | ||
beneficial use transfers possession of the treated product or any | ||
treatment byproduct to another person for the purpose of subsequent | ||
disposal or beneficial use, the transferred product or byproduct is | ||
considered to be the property of the person to whom the material is | ||
transferred. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3246 was passed by the House on April | ||
16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3246 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |