Bill Text: TX HB3595 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to imposing a fee on water used in the performance of a hydraulic fracturing treatment on an oil or gas well.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-10 - Left pending in committee [HB3595 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3595-Introduced.html
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| By: Burnam | H.B. No. 3595 | |
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| relating to imposing a fee on water used in the performance of a | ||
| hydraulic fracturing treatment on an oil or gas well. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter S, Chapter 91, Natural | ||
| Resources Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER S. REGULATION OF [ |
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| HYDRAULIC FRACTURING [ |
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| SECTION 2. Subchapter S, Chapter 91, Natural Resources | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 91.852 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 91.852. FEE FOR USE OF WATER IN HYDRAULIC FRACTURING | ||
| TREATMENT. (a) The commission shall charge and collect from each | ||
| operator of a well on which a hydraulic fracturing treatment is | ||
| performed a fee on the total volume of water used in the performance | ||
| of the hydraulic fracturing treatment as reported to the commission | ||
| under Section 91.851(a)(1)(B). | ||
| (b) The rate of the fee is 20 cents for each 1,000 gallons of | ||
| water used in the performance of the hydraulic fracturing | ||
| treatment. | ||
| (c) The revenue from the fee shall be deposited to the | ||
| credit of the water infrastructure fund. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 91.852, Natural Resources Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, applies only to a hydraulic fracturing treatment | ||
| performed on or after the date the initial rules adopted by the | ||
| Railroad Commission of Texas to implement that section take effect. | ||
| A hydraulic fracturing treatment performed before the date the | ||
| initial rules take effect is governed by the law as it existed | ||
| immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. The Railroad Commission of Texas shall adopt | ||
| rules to implement Section 91.852, Natural Resources Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, not later than December 1, 2013. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
