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Providing that the Texas Railroad Commission henceforth shall not issue any permit to authorize the drilling of an oil or gas well in this State unless such permit include provisions that no gas produced from the well to be permitted shall be sold or contracted for sale for ultimate use outside of the State of Texas unless and until the Railroad Commission shall find that neither certain health-care facilities, public and private schools, State and other public facilities, nor any resident of Texas requires said gas as fuel to meet needs for heat and electricity; providing that the Railroad Commission shall not assign a production allowable to any oil or gas well unless such be made subject to the previously enumerated terms and conditions; further providing for the granting of exceptions to the provisions hereof upon a finding by the Railroad Commission that enforcement of such provisions would cause physical waste or unreasonably deny to the lessee an opportunity economically to produce hydrocarbons from the well in question; providing for severability; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.