West Virginia House Bill 2960 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-11 - To House Energy
Pending: House Energy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to permit natural gas companies federally regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and doing business in interstate commerce to obtaining data to comply with regulatory requirements or to survey land for interstate pipeline or pipeline facility development. This bill also requires natural gas companies to enter private property without prior consent from the owner for the limited purposes of request permission from the owner to inspect property and to provide the owner notice of intent to enter property prior to entry. The bill requires the natural gas company to send or deliver the surface owner moneys to compensate for the entry. The bill further preempts entries authorized under this section from being deemed either a trespass or a taking and limits a property owner’s liability with respect to the company’s entry.

Relating to entry onto private property for certain purposes by a federally regulated natural gas company

Del. William Anderson [R]	Del. Joshua Higginbotham [R]	Del. Tom Azinger [R]	Del. Ray Hollen [R]
Sen. Eric Nelson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-11	House	To House Energy
2019-02-11	House	Introduced in House
2019-02-11	House	To Energy
2019-02-11	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	3b	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2960&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2960%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2960