Bills › 90th General Assembly
HSB 698
Topics:Business & economy
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 12, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2024
- Done: House committeeFebruary 13, 2024
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 2551
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 2551 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 2551 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to electric transmission lines and electric transmission owners.16, identifying Iowa consumers’ urgent need for development and investment in high-voltage transmission. The bill provides that an incumbent electric transmission owner may be formed, located, or headquartered in any state as long as the electric transmission line is located in Iowa. Under the bill, an existing electric transmission facility owner has the right to construct, own, and maintain an electric transmission line that directly connects to the electric transmission facility.
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If a proposed transmission line would directly connect to facilities owned by two or more facility owners, each owner has the right to construct, own, and maintain the electric transmission line individually and equally. After July 1, 2020, approved electric transmission lines not subject to right of first refusal in a federally registered planning authority transmission plan shall give notice to the Iowa utilities board (board) whether the incumbent electric transmission owner or owners intend to construct, own, and maintain the electric transmission line. _____ or days after enactment of the bill. The board may determine whether another person may construct the electric transmission line if the incumbent electric transmission owner or owners give notice declining to construct or do not give timely notice. The bill takes effect upon enactment. The bill applies retroactively to an electric transmission line approved for construction in a federally registered planning authority transmission plan.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
House subcommittee
Named February 12, 2024. On February 13, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-1.
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Iowa Code it changes
Amends§478.16
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
8 for · 15 against · 17 undecided · Who →
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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.
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