West Virginia House Bill 3065 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 12 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-12 - To House Energy
Pending: House Energy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create the Orphan Oil and Gas Well Prevention Act; providing for a short title; providing for Legislative findings and declarations; providing for restrictions to permit oil and natural gas wells, certain prohibitions, and requiring plugging assurance requirements; providing for limitations on the transfer of wells; providing for responsibility of previous operators to plug transferred wells; providing for different methods for operators to provide plugging assurance of wells including for wells not producing in paying quantities; providing administrative and management responsibilities for the Chief of the Office of Oil and Gas and the State Treasurer regarding plugging assurance funds; providing clarifications regarding the duties of mineral and surface owners; providing for rule making authority and severability; and providing an effective date.

Orphan Oil and Gas Well Prevention Act

Del. Evan Hansen [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-12	House	To House Energy
2019-02-12	House	Introduced in House
2019-02-12	House	To Energy
2019-02-12	House	Filed for introduction

SB576 (Similar To) 2019-02-12 - To Energy, Industry and Mining

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	10A	1	New Code	See Bill Text
22	10A	10	New Code	See Bill Text
22	10A	2	New Code	See Bill Text
22	10A	3	New Code	See Bill Text
22	10A	4	New Code	See Bill Text
22	10A	5	New Code	See Bill Text
22	10A	6	New Code	See Bill Text
22	10A	7	New Code	See Bill Text
22	10A	8	New Code	See Bill Text
22	10A	9	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3065&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3065%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3065