All Roll Calls
Yes: 127 • No: 0
ArkansasHB14132025 Regular SessionHouse
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING BRINE PRODUCTION; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FORMATION OF BRINE PRODUCTION UNITS.
Sponsored By: Matthew J. Shepherd (Republican), Matt Stone (Republican)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
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1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Brine operators gain options to reshape units
Arkansas brine operators can ask the commission to remove connected tracts of land from production or expansion units. Removal requires no unplugged brine production or disposal wells on the land. No such wells can have been within one-half mile of any outer boundary during the unit’s operation. Operations in the original or any adjacent unit must not drain the removed land or create an imminent drainage risk. Operators can also seek transfers of connected tracts between adjacent production or expansion units. The commission must approve transfers when all these requirements are met: the operator holds brine production rights covering at least 75% of each adjacent unit; the transfer expands, improves, or makes the receiving operation more efficient; and the transferred land will be drained efficiently. Transfers must not reduce owners’ royalty amounts or how long payments are reasonably expected to last. They also must not substantially harm rights to a fair share of brine for owners of transferred or receiving-unit land. Approved transferred tracts become a brine expansion unit next to the receiving unit.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Matthew J. Shepherd
Republican • House
Matt Stone
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/3/2025
Senate Vote - Monday, March 3, 2025 3:01:33 PM
Yes: 34 • No: 0
House vote • 2/24/2025
House Vote - Monday, February 24, 2025 1:45:34 PM
Yes: 93 • No: 0 • Other: 3
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1413 is now Act 254
3/6/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
3/4/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
3/3/2025HouseReturned from the Senate as passed.
3/3/2025HouseReturned to the House as passed.
3/3/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
3/3/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
2/27/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE
2/24/2025SenateReceived from the House.
2/24/2025SenateRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
2/24/2025HouseREPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
2/20/2025HouseAmendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
2/20/2025HousePlaced on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
2/20/2025HouseReturned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1
2/19/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE
2/5/2025HouseFiled
2/5/2025House
Bill Text
HB1413 - Introduced
2/5/2025
Act Version
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