House Committee on Energy - 71st R.S. (1989)
Committee Members
- Jim McWilliams, Chair
- Tom Craddick, Vice Chair
- Rick Perry, Chair - Budget & Oversight
- Steve Holzheauser
- Randy Pennington
- Sam Russell
- Dan Shelley
- Sylvester Turner
- Jerry Yost
Charges
- To monitor all activities and to have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 10.
- To study naturally occurring radioactive material.
- To study division order problems between royalty owners and producers.
- To study the feasibility of protection of underground pipeline and utilities by means of a "Statewide One Call System."
- To study the extension and maintenance of stripper well production.
- To study the effects of foreign ownership, directly or indirectly, of energy interests in Texas.
- To study the effects of drilling fluids in various geological strata.
- To study the severity of defective cement plugs in wellbores throughout the state.
- To study the economic impact, state policy, and criminal liability in oil spills, toxic spills and other environmental accidents (joint study with Environmental Affairs Committee).
- To study the utilization of regional offices of the Railroad Commission.
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