Virginia House Bill 1708 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-10 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Certain industrial uses; transmission lines. Requires that a zoning ordinance shall provide that any proposed data center that will require utilization of a 230 kilovolt electrical transmission line shall be located only in an area zoned for industrial use. However, if a zoning ordinance authorizes a data center, or similar land use, that will require utilization of a 230 kilovolt or greater electrical transmission line outside of an area zoned for industrial use, any electrical transmission lines that support such a land use and that are located at a distance greater than 300 feet from an existing electrical transmission line shall be placed underground at the expense of the owner of the data center.

Certain industrial uses; transmission lines.

Del. Robert Marshall [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-10	House	Left in Commerce and Labor
2015-01-20	House	Assigned C & L sub: Special Subcommittee on Energy
2015-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2015-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15103531D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2293.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB1708
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB1708+hil