Virginia Senate Bill 684 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-08 - Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Utility vegetation management activities; civil penalties. Requires utilities to give notice by first-class mail of planned vegetation management activities to customers, landowners, and local governments. The notice, which is required to be sent both not less than 60 days before the activities commence and again approximately two weeks before the activities commence, shall include a map of the site or parcels where activities are proposed and a description of the procedures by which the person to whom the notice is mailed may appeal the conduct of the planned vegetation management activities. The State Corporation Commission (SCC) shall require utilities to establish reasonable criteria for the conduct of vegetation management activities, which shall be consistent with guidelines to be adopted by the SCC that establish standards for the conduct of vegetation management activities. Vegetation management activities by any utility shall not alter, trespass upon, or limit the rights of any property owner. The measure requires the SCC, upon receipt of a written complaint, to investigate the situation. The measure also authorizes the SCC to impose a civil penalty against a utility that violates these requirements. One-half of the civil penalty collected by the SCC is to be paid to the owner of the property damaged by the violation that gave rise to the assessment of the civil penalty, and the other one-half is to be deposited in a special fund created by this bill and used for administration and enforcement activities.

Utility vegetation management activities; notices required to customers, civil penalties.

Sen. Richard Black [R]

2016-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-08	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N)
2016-01-20	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2016-01-20	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 16104113D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB684
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB684+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S02V0057+SB0684