101st Congress > Senate > Vote 89

Date: June 13, 1989

Result: 87-11 (Motion to Table Agreed to)

Clerk session vote number: 89

Vote Subject Matter: Government Management / Regulation Special Interest

Sponsor: JOHNSTON, John Bennett, Jr. (D-LA)

Bill number: HR1722

Question: On the Motion to Table

Description: To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to use its existing authority to decontrol incentive pricing for certain high cost natural gas.

Bill summary: Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989 - Amends the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 to declare that the price guidelines for the first sale of natural gas do not apply to: (1) expired, terminated, or post-enactment contracts executed after the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) certain renegotiated contracts. Decontrols as of May 15, 1991, natural gas produced from newly spudded wells. Repeals permanently wellhead price controls beginning on January 1, 1993.

Bill titles: To amend the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 to eliminate wellhead price controls on the first sale of natural gas, and to make technical and conforming amendments to such Act.

Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 135, p. 6525;

Links for more info on the vote: congress.gov

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