Bill Text: TX HB3291 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to transactions involving oil, gas, or condensate; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2015-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB3291 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3291-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to transactions involving oil, gas, or condensate; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2015-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB3291 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3291-Comm_Sub.html
By: Raymond (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 3291 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 28, 2015; | ||
April 30, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Natural Resources and Economic Development; May 18, 2015, reported | ||
adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 18, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3291 | By: Zaffirini |
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relating to transactions involving oil, gas, or condensate; | ||
creating a criminal offense. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 85, Natural Resources | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 85.390 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 85.390. TRANSACTION WITHOUT APPROVAL, AUTHORIZATION, | ||
OR PERMIT. (a) A person who is not a pipeline operator or gatherer | ||
authorized to operate by the commission commits an offense if the | ||
person recklessly possesses, transports, removes, delivers, | ||
accepts, purchases, sells, or physically moves oil, gas, or | ||
condensate as part of a transaction for which the commission | ||
requires a permit or commission approval or authorization unless | ||
the commission has: | ||
(1) issued a permit, approval, or authorization for | ||
the transaction; or | ||
(2) received a request for a permit, approval, or | ||
authorization for the transaction and the request is pending before | ||
the commission. | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the second | ||
degree. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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