US Congress House Bill 1373 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on March 6 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-10 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

APPROVAL Act Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Department of Energy and the Southwestern and Western Area Power Administrations from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected. An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

APPROVAL Act Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act

Rep. Steve Womack [R-AR]

Rep. Eric Crawford [R-AR]

Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR]

Rep. French Hill [R-AR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-10	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
2017-03-06	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2017-03-06	House	Introduced in House

SB529 (Same As) 2017-03-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1373/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1373/BILLS-115hr1373ih.pdf