West Virginia House Bill 3042 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: Introduced on February 7 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-07 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to modernize the oil and gas regulatory program and to provide a means to regulate horizontal drilling and drilling processes that utilize large volumes of water. It also adds "timber" to the list of things for which a surface owner may be compensated. The bill also removes the Chief of the Office of Oil & Gas from the Shallow Gas Well Review Board and replaces the chief with a person representing the interests of surface owners of real property. Finally, it removes the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and the Chief of the Office of Oil & Gas from the Conservation Commission and replaces them with the state Geologist and a person representing the interests of surface owners of real property and provides a new section to regulate pooling of gas from horizontal shallow wells.

Relating to the regulation of oil and gas wells

Del. Larry Barker [D]	Sen. Michael Caputo [D]	Del. Timothy Manchin [D]	Del. Michael Manypenny [D]
Del. Dale Martin [D]	Del. Ron Walters [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-07		To House Judiciary
2011-02-07		Introduced in House
2011-02-07		To Judiciary then Finance
2011-02-07		Filed for introduction

SB424 (Same As) 2011-03-12 - Reordered on the calendar

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22	6	41	(n/a)	See Bill Text
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22C	9	7a	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3042&year=2011&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3042%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3042