Bill Text: TX SB2341 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to funding for counties for transportation infrastructure projects located in areas of the state affected by increased oil and gas production.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Transportation [SB2341 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2341-Introduced.html
2019S0226-1 02/15/19 | ||
By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 2341 |
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relating to funding for counties for transportation infrastructure | ||
projects located in areas of the state affected by increased oil and | ||
gas production. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 251.018, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 251.018. ROAD REPORTS. A road condition report made by | ||
a county that is operating under a system of administering county | ||
roads under Chapter 252 or a special law, including a report made | ||
under Section 251.005, must include the primary cause of any road, | ||
culvert, or bridge degradation, if reasonably ascertained, along | ||
with a brief description of the degradation. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 256.101(3) and (4), Transportation | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(3) "Weight tolerance permit" means a permit issued | ||
under Section 623.011 for [ |
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operating specifically in relation to the exploration, | ||
development, or production of oil or gas [ |
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(4) "Well completion" means the completion, reentry, | ||
or recompletion of a vertical or horizontal [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 256.103, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsection (b) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a-1) To be eligible for a grant under this subchapter, a | ||
county must have at least 400 active wells, including horizontal, | ||
vertical, and oil and gas waste disposal wells, as determined by the | ||
most recent data of the Railroad Commission of Texas. | ||
(b) Grants distributed during a fiscal year must be | ||
allocated among counties as follows: | ||
(1) 10 [ |
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permits, determined by the ratio of weight tolerance permits issued | ||
in the preceding fiscal year for the county to the total number of | ||
weight tolerance permits issued in the state in that fiscal year, as | ||
determined by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles; | ||
(2) 20 percent according to oil and gas production | ||
taxes, determined by the ratio of oil and gas production taxes | ||
collected by the comptroller in the preceding fiscal year in the | ||
county to the total amount of oil and gas production taxes collected | ||
in the state in that fiscal year, as determined by the comptroller; | ||
(3) 15 [ |
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completions, determined by the ratio of vertical well completions | ||
in the preceding fiscal year in the county to the total number of | ||
vertical well completions in the state in that fiscal year, as | ||
determined by the Railroad Commission of Texas; [ |
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(4) 45 percent according to horizontal well | ||
completions, determined by the ratio of horizontal well completions | ||
in the preceding fiscal year in the county to the total number of | ||
horizontal well completions in the state in that fiscal year, as | ||
determined by the Railroad Commission of Texas; and | ||
(5) 10 percent according to the total number [ |
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of oil and gas waste disposal wells as defined by the Railroad | ||
Commission of Texas [ |
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total number [ |
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Railroad Commission of Texas has a report for commercial disposal | ||
wells in the county to the total number [ |
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waste disposal wells [ |
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as determined by the Railroad Commission of Texas. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |