Bill Text: TX HB33 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of certain federal laws regulating oil and gas operations within the State of Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB33 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB33-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of certain federal laws regulating oil and gas operations within the State of Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB33 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB33-Comm_Sub.html
By: Landgraf, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Springer) | H.B. No. 33 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2023; | ||
May 9, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural | ||
Resources & Economic Development; May 19, 2023, reported | ||
adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 3, one present not voting; May 19, 2023, sent to | ||
printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 33 | By: Hughes |
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relating to the enforcement of certain federal laws regulating oil | ||
and gas operations within the State of Texas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 3, Natural Resources Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 82 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 82. ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL LAWS | ||
Sec. 82.0101. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "oil and gas | ||
operation" has the meaning assigned by Section 81.0523. | ||
Sec. 82.0102. ENFORCEMENT OF CERTAIN FEDERAL LAWS | ||
REGULATING OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS. (a) An agency of this state or a | ||
person employed by an agency of this state may not contract with or | ||
in any other manner provide assistance to a federal agency or | ||
official with respect to the enforcement of a federal statute, | ||
order, rule, or regulation purporting to regulate oil and gas | ||
operations if the statute, order, rule, or regulation imposes a | ||
prohibition, restriction, or other regulation that does not exist | ||
under the laws of this state. | ||
(b) The attorney general shall defend any agency of this | ||
state that the federal government attempts to sue for an action or | ||
omission consistent with the requirements of this section. | ||
(c) This section does not prohibit a state agency from: | ||
(1) implementing a federal law by executing authority | ||
delegated to the state agency by a federal agency; or | ||
(2) entering into a memorandum of understanding with a | ||
federal agency to implement a federal law, if otherwise authorized | ||
by state law. | ||
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, 2023. | ||
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