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Committee:	House Energy Resources
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	e-government | Liens | Mexico | Mineral rights | Natural gas production | Natural gas royalties | Oil production | Oil royalties | Pipeline safety | Property rights | Railroad Commission of Texas | Rainy Day Fund |
Library Call Number:	L1836.83 En27
Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View report [44 pages]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the impact of the expanding oil and gas exploration and production occurring across the state. Included in the study should be both the positive impacts of the exploration and production as well as the new challenges they are presenting. The study should encompass a review of the following issues: • The effect on the state budget and the Economic Stabilization Fund; • The overall impact on the state economy; • The impact on property values and local taxes; • The effect on roads; • The impact on local school districts; • The complex relationship between land owners, royalty owners, and operators; • The impact on the environment, including emissions and injection wells; • Projected water needs and how those fit with our state water plan; and • The housing issues created by the number of workers needed in areas of shale plays.
2.	Study the P5 permitting process at the Railroad Commission to determine whether the process is efficient and effective and whether there are actions that can be taken to improve the process.
3.	Study and review the appropriation of general revenue dollars allocated to the Railroad Commission for improvements in IT systems to ensure those funds are being utilized to streamline the permitting process and to allow access to information for all parties that conduct business at the Commission.
4.	Review the application of Texas Business & Commerce Code, Section 9.343, to determine the legal rights of unperfected security interests of oil and gas producers with respect to subsequent purchasers, specifically in the context of a bankruptcy proceeding such as Arrow Oil & Gas, Inc. v. SemCrude, L.P. and subsequent cases.
5.	Monitor the implementation of HB 2982, 83rd R.S. to ensure that the required rulemaking is completed efficiently and in a timely manner and SB 1747, 83rd R.S. to ensure effective implementation in keeping with legislative intent.
6.	Conduct legislative oversight and monitoring of the agencies and programs under the committee’s jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 83rd Legislature. In conducting this oversight, the committee should: a. consider any reforms to state agencies to make them more responsive to Texas taxpayers and citizens; b. identify issues regarding the agency or its governance that may be appropriate to investigate, improve, remedy, or eliminate; c. determine whether an agency is operating in a transparent and efficient manner; and d. identify opportunities to streamline programs and services while maintaining the mission of the agency and its programs.
7.	Examine the impact on Texas’s economy and businesses of the recent expansion of oil and gas production in Northern Mexico. Assess opportunities for economic growth in Texas and collaboration between Texas businesses and Mexico resulting from Mexico’s energy reform, including Mexico’s efforts to recover shale gas from the Eagle Ford Shale.
Committee:	House Energy
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 72nd Legislature : interim report from the Committee on Energy, Texas House of Representatives, 71st Legislature.
Subjects:	Abandoned oil wells | Low producing wells | Natural gas industry | Natural gas royalties | Oil industry | Oil production | Oil royalties | One call to dig program | Pipeline safety | Radioactive materials | Radioactive waste | Railroad Commission of Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.71 en27
Session:	71st R.S. (1989)
Online version:	View report [25 pages  File size: 1,418 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To study naturally occurring radioactive material.
2.	To study division order problems between royalty owners and producers.
3.	To study the feasibility of protection of underground pipeline and utilities by means of a "Statewide One Call System."
4.	To study the extension and maintenance of stripper well production.
5.	To study the effects of foreign ownership, directly or indirectly, of energy interests in Texas.
6.	To study the effects of drilling fluids in various geological strata.
7.	To study the severity of defective cement plugs in wellbores throughout the state.
8.	To study the utilization of regional offices of the Railroad Commission.
Committee:	House Oil and Gas Leases, Investigate
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the committee in regard to certain oil and gas leases.
Subjects:	Fiscal management | Natural gas leases | Natural gas royalties | Oil fields | Oil leases | Oil production | Oil royalties | Permanent University Fund | State land | University of Texas at Austin |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 42nd Leg., R.S., 2082 (1931)
Session:	41st R.S. (1929)
Online version:	View report [16 pages  File size: 785 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Investigate the validity of certain oil and gas leases. *
2.	Determine whether the University of Texas has and is now receiving their share of royalty due from oil and gas leases.
3.	Determine whether the available fund is being expended in a lawful manner.

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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