Virginia Senate Bill 145 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-02-02 - Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Pooling orders and coalbed methane drilling; application to activities since 1990. Requires a well operator to obtain any required pooling order before applying for a well permit. Where an operator begins ground disturbing activity for a well without a required pooling order, any unleased mineral owners in the unit will be deemed fully paid participants in the unit. The bill applies to any ground disturbing activity for a well undertaken since January 1, 1990. The bill has an effective date of January 1, 2013.

Coalbed methane drilling; pooling orders.

Sen. Phillip Puckett [D]

2012-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-02		Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
2012-01-10		Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2012-01-10		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101326D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
45	1	361.29	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+SB145
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB145+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+S01V0040+SB0145