Virginia Senate Bill 302 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-03 - Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Utility easements. Provides that any utility easement, granted before, on, or after July 1, 2020, whether granted publicly or privately, by statute, local ordinance, deed, or other recorded instrument, or by prescription, shall be deemed to include the laying, hanging, and maintenance of fiber optic cable. The bill further provides that any utility easement shall also be deemed to include access over private or public lands to permit the grantee to have physical access to such cable, unless the instrument granting the easement was recorded prior to July 1, 2020, and specifically states otherwise.

Utility easements; fiber optic cable.

Sen. William Stanley [R]

2020-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-03	Senate	Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
2020-01-17	Senate	Assigned C&L sub: Energy
2020-01-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2020-01-05	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100783D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
55	1	306	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB302
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB302+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S02V0077+SB0302