Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1468
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/14/2015           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (Dean)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 42 - 51
    4  and insert:
    5         (5) “Flowback fluid” means a water-based solution that
    6  flows back to the surface during or after completion of well
    7  stimulation.
    8         (6)(5) “Gas” means all natural gas, including casinghead
    9  gas, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in subsection
   10  (17)(15).
   11         (7) “High pressure well stimulation” means a well
   12  intervention performed by injecting fluids into a rock formation
   13  at a pressure that exceeds the fracture gradient of the rock
   14  formation in order to propagate fractures in such formation to
   15  increase production at an oil or gas well by improving flow of
   16  hydrocarbons from the formation into the wellbore. The term does
   17  not include routine well cleaning or maintenance that does not
   18  affect the integrity of the well or rock formation.
   19  
   20  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   21  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   22         Delete lines 35 - 39
   23  and insert:
   24         Section 1. Present subsection (5) of section 377.19,
   25  Florida Statutes, is amended and redesignated as subsection (6),
   26  present subsections (6) through (32) of that section are
   27  redesignated as subsections (8) through (34), respectively, and
   28  new subsections (5) and (7) are added to that section, to read:
   29  
   30  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete line 6
   33  and insert:
   34         the terms “flowback fluid” and “high pressure well
   35         stimulation;” amending s.