Bill Text: TX HCR84 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging Congress to identify federal regulatory programs that harm the Texas oil and gas industry and delegate relevant regulatory responsibilities to state agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-13 - Left pending in committee [HCR84 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR84-Introduced.html
85R10992 RMA-D | ||
By: Darby | H.C.R. No. 84 |
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WHEREAS, Throughout the Obama administration, the federal | ||
government waged a campaign of overregulation that caused | ||
significant harm to the oil and gas industry in the Lone Star State; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Despite protests from Texas and other oil- and | ||
gas-producing states, the U.S. government has implemented a litany | ||
of massive federal regulations, resulting in an unnavigable network | ||
of rules and guidelines that has produced greater economic hardship | ||
but insignificant environmental benefits; such policies have led | ||
the State of Texas to join with many other oil- and gas-producing | ||
states in filing more than 20 lawsuits against federal overreach; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, A flourishing oil and gas industry in Texas is vital | ||
to our nation's energy independence from foreign and hostile energy | ||
cartels; it is paramount that the federal government transcend | ||
partisan politics and stop misusing regulatory power and instead | ||
work with Texas to create better energy policies that will | ||
strengthen our economy, provide more good-paying jobs, and enhance | ||
our national security; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby urge Congress and the executive branch of the federal | ||
government to identify key federal regulations currently under the | ||
authority of the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. | ||
Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Energy, or other | ||
federal agencies, to determine whether they should be preserved, | ||
revised, delegated to state agencies, or eliminated; and, be it | ||
further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature encourage Congress and | ||
the executive branch of the federal government to work in | ||
conjunction with Texas on delegating the authority of federal | ||
energy regulations to the state's regulatory agencies, in an effort | ||
to mitigate the overregulation of the oil and gas industry in the | ||
Lone Star State; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
the speaker of the House of Representatives and to the president of | ||
the Senate of the United States Congress, and to all members of the | ||
Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this resolution | ||
be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to | ||
the Congress of the United States of America. |