83R6219 JAM-F
By: Keffer H.B. No. 2571
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the inspection of certain information regarding the
production, transportation, sale, and marketing of oil and gas from
state land; imposing an administrative penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 52.135, Natural Resources Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and (e) to read as
follows:
(a-1) Not later than the 60th day after the date of receipt
of a request from the commissioner, the attorney general, or the
governor for information described by Subsection (a), a lessee
shall produce the requested information.
(a-2) A lessee who is unable to produce requested
information in the time required by Subsection (a-1) must, not
later than the 30th day after the date of receipt of a request for
the information, reply in writing to the requestor and state the
reason for the unavailability of the information and when the
information will be available. A requestor who receives a reply
under this subsection may extend the deadline for the production of
the requested information.
(e) The commissioner may assess an administrative penalty
against a lessee who fails to produce requested information in the
time required under Subsection (a-1) or (a-2). The penalty may not
exceed:
(1) $100 a day for each day after the deadline for
producing the information that the lessee fails to produce the
information until the 60th day after the deadline; and
(2) $1,000 a day for each day after the 60th day after
the deadline for producing the information that the lessee fails to
produce the information.
SECTION 2. Section 52.135, Natural Resources Code, as
amended by this Act, applies only to a request for information made
under that section on or after the effective date of this Act. A
request for information made under that section before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date of the request, and the former law is continued in effect for
that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.