HR 2513
113th Congress
House
Energy
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
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Forests, forestry, trees
General public lands matters
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Oil and gas
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Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act
Introduced: June 26, 2013
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Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 3, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Jun 28, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
Jun 27, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Jun 26, 2013
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jun 26, 2013
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act - Grants any state sole authority to promulgate or enforce any regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding the treatment of a well by the application of fluids under pressure to which propping agents may be added for the expressly designed purpose of initiating or propagating fractures in a target geologic formation in order to enhance production of oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on or under land within the boundaries of that state.
Subjects such a well treatment on federal land to state law as well.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.