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Relating to construction projects transporting electricity and water and including retroactive applicability provisions
Sponsored by the House Ways and Means Committee
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedApril 10, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeApril 10, 2023
- Done: House committeeApril 12, 2023
- Done: Passes the HouseApril 19, 202395–0
- Done: Senate committeeApril 24, 2023
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 26, 202349–0
- Done: To the GovernorMay 9, 2023
- Done: Signed into lawJune 1, 2023
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What’s in it
AI summary If a company wants to build aboveground merchant lines using eminent domain, they must get approval from the Iowa utilities board within three years. If the board does not approve the request in that time, the petition will be rejected. Currently, this three-year limit only applies to certain types of lines, but this change would specifically target aboveground ones.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to merchant line franchise petition requirements. The bill specifies that if a proposed aboveground merchant line involving the use of eminent domain fails to be approved by the Iowa utilities board within three years following the submission of the franchise’s petition, the board shall reject the petition. Current law does not restrict this provision to aboveground merchant lines.
Changed since by amendments S-3188, S-3184, H-1248; see Amendments.
House subcommittee
Named April 10, 2023 (as HSB 246). On April 11, 2023 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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