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HSB 540
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2020
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the construction, ownership, and maintenance of electric transmission lines. The bill allows an incumbent electric transmission owner, as defined in the bill, to construct, own, and maintain an electric transmission line, as defined in the bill, that has been approved for construction in a federally registered planning authority transmission plan and which connects to the owner’s electric transmission facility. _____ transmission line individually and equally. If an incumbent electric transmission owner declines to construct, own, and maintain its portion of an electric transmission line that connects to electric transmission facilities owned by two or more owners, then the other owners to which the electric transmission line connects may construct, own, and maintain the electric transmission line individually and equally.
Read the full explanation
The bill provides that the bill does not modify the authority of the board or the requirements, rights, and obligations related to the construction, maintenance, and operation of electric transmission lines under Code chapter 478.
House subcommittee
Named January 22, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part