Amendment H-1187 to HF 639
Relating to hazardous liquid pipelines, including common carrier requirements, proceedings under the Iowa utilities commission, including commission member attendance at hearings and informational meetings, including allowing certain persons to intervene in such proceedings, including sanctions on intervenors in contested cases, and permit, permit renewal, and operation limitations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. Vetoed 6-11-25
Adopted · March 26, 2025
Filed March 25, 2025 in the House by
What it changes
- Page 1, after line 23 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 479B.14, subsection 2, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
- The commission shall not grant an exclusive right to any pipeline company to construct, maintain, or operate its pipeline along, over, or across any public or private highway, grounds, waters, or streams. The commission shall not grant a permit for longer than twenty-five years. The commission shall not renew a permit granted to a pipeline that transports liquefied carbon dioxide and no pipeline that transports liquefied carbon dioxide shall be permitted to operate for longer than twenty-five years.”
- Title page, line 1, after “relating to” by inserting “hazardous liquid pipelines, including”
- Title page, line 2, by striking “permit.” and inserting “permit, permit renewal, and operation limitations.”
- By renumbering as necessary.