Bill Text: TX SB1872 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to certain contracts for the sale, transportation, or gathering of natural gas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-15 - Co-author authorized [SB1872 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1872-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain contracts for the sale, transportation, or gathering of natural gas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-15 - Co-author authorized [SB1872 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1872-Introduced.html
88R13277 KBB-D | ||
By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 1872 |
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relating to confidentiality provisions of certain contracts for the | ||
sale, transportation, or gathering of natural gas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 81.060, Natural Resources Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows: | ||
(c) A confidentiality provision may not be required in a | ||
contract between the owner or operator of a pipeline and a shipper | ||
for the sale, transportation, or gathering of natural gas that is | ||
entered into on or after September 1, 2023. | ||
(d) A confidentiality provision in a contract between the | ||
owner or operator of a pipeline and a shipper for the sale, | ||
transportation, or gathering of natural gas that was entered into | ||
before September 1, 2023, becomes unenforceable on the date the | ||
term of the contract expires. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |