2013-2014 Bill 4837: Piedmont Natural Gas - South Carolina Legislature Online

1 South Carolina General Assembly 2 120th Session, 2013-2014 3 4 H. 4837 5 6 STATUS INFORMATION 7 8 House Resolution 9 Sponsors: Reps. Forrester, Alexander, Allison, Anderson, Anthony, Atwater, Bales, Ballentine, Bannister, 10 Barfield, Bedingfield, Bernstein, Bingham, Bowen, Bowers, Branham, Brannon, G.A. Brown, 11 R.L. Brown, Burns, Chumley, Clemmons, Clyburn, CobbHunter, Cole, H.A. Crawford, K.R. Crawford, 12 Crosby, Daning, Delleney, Dillard, Douglas, Edge, Erickson, Felder, Finlay, Funderburk, Gagnon, 13 Gambrell, George, Gilliard, Goldfinch, Govan, Hamilton, Hardee, Hardwick, Harrell, Hart, Hayes, 14 Henderson, Herbkersman, Hiott, Hixon, Hodges, Horne, Hosey, Howard, Huggins, Jefferson, Kennedy, 15 King, Knight, Limehouse, Loftis, Long, Lowe, Lucas, Mack, McCoy, McEachern, M.S. McLeod, 16 W.J. McLeod, Merrill, Mitchell, D.C. Moss, V.S. Moss, Munnerlyn, Murphy, Nanney, Neal, Newton, 17 Norman, Norrell, R.L. Ott, Owens, Parks, Patrick, Pitts, Pope, Putnam, Quinn, Ridgeway, Riley, Rivers, 18 RobinsonSimpson, Rutherford, Ryhal, Sabb, Sandifer, Sellers, Simrill, Skelton, G.M. Smith, G.R. Smith, 19 J.E. Smith, J.R. Smith, Sottile, Southard, Spires, Stavrinakis, Stringer, Tallon, Taylor, Thayer, Toole, 20 Vick, Weeks, Wells, Whipper, White, Whitmire, Williams, Willis and Wood 21 Document Path: l:\council\bills\rm\1496vr14.docx 22 23 Introduced in the House on March 4, 2014 24 Adopted by the House on March 4, 2014 25 26 Summary: Piedmont Natural Gas 27 28 29 HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 30 31 Date Body Action Description with journal page number 32 3/4/2014 House Introduced and adopted ( House Journalpage 74) 33 34 35 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL 36 37 3/4/2014 38 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A HOUSE RESOLUTION 10 11 TO CONGRATULATE PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS ON 12 CAPTURING FIRST PLACE AT THE 2013 NATIONAL GAS 13 RODEO, A FEAT THAT EARNED THE COMPANY THE 14 UNOFFICIAL TITLE OF “PREMIER TEAM IN THE 15 NATURAL GAS BUSINESS.” 16 17 Whereas, the South Carolina House of Representatives is pleased 18 to learn that Piedmont Natural Gas captured the top prize at the 19 2013 National Gas Rodeo; and 20 21 Whereas, held annually in Fairview Heights, Illinois, the 22 competition brings together close to fifty teams from across the 23 country to compete for bragging rights as the premier team in the 24 natural gas business. Five timed events reveal the knowledge and 25 skills of each team, and teams are penalized for not performing 26 them to rodeo standards. These events mimic everyday activities 27 performed by crews in the natural gas industry; and 28 29 Whereas, events include meter set, service installation, pipe cut, 30 hand dig, and a relay event featuring six stations (truck and tractor, 31 back hoe, pipe squeeze, miniexcavator, regulator bypass, and water 32 cooler), all tackled with aplomb by Piedmont Natural Gas “Insane 33 Methane” team members Terry Marcum, Wayne Ledbetter, Andy 34 Stansell, Tom Pressley, and Nick Tate; and 35 36 Whereas, Piedmont Natural Gas has competed in the National Gas 37 Rodeo since 2008. The company believes that participation in the 38 event benefits both employees and customers in several ways, not 39 the least of which is the competition’s stress on safety as being of 40 utmost importance. Also, both employees and management hold 41 that taking learned and reinforced practices back home and

[4837] 2 1 applying them improves quality of work and enables the company 2 to serve its customers better; and 3 4 Whereas, since the company began competing in the event, 5 Piedmont Natural Gas teams have set five national records at the 6 National Gas Rodeo and won the championship in 2009, 2010, 7 2011, and 2013. The House of Representatives takes great pleasure 8 in commending the company on this outstanding record, and the 9 members wish the team all the best as it readies for the upcoming 10 2014 competition. Now, therefore, 11 12 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives: 13 14 That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 15 by this resolution, congratulate Piedmont Natural Gas on capturing 16 first place at the 2013 National Gas Rodeo, a feat that earned the 17 company the unofficial title of “Premier Team in the Natural Gas 18 Business.” 19 20 Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be provided to 21 Piedmont Natural Gas. 22 XX 23

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