West Virginia House Bill 3013 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on February 24 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-24 - To House Energy
Pending: House Energy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to change an elective obligation to a mandatory one. The bill requires notice in certain instances to the occupants of residential property. The bill prohibits the disturbance of a well site be not closer than fifteen hundred feet of an occupied dwelling. The bill provides notices include certain information. The bill establishes standards relating to air, noise, light and dust. The bill permits landowners be compensated for any decrease in the values of the land for its highest and best use. The bill requires the notice of a claim be also provided to an occupant of residential structure on the property. The bill establishes a statute of limitations for claims being filed.

Relating generally to horizontal well control standards

Del. Barbara Fleischauer [D]	Del. Timothy Manchin [D]	Del. Don Perdue [D]	Del. Mike Pushkin [D]
Del. Nancy Peoples Guthrie [D]	Del. Shawn Fluharty [D]	Del. Stephen Skinner [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-24	House	To House Energy
2015-02-24	House	Introduced in House
2015-02-24	House	To Energy then Judiciary
2015-02-24	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	6A	10	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	6A	12	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	6A	12a	New Code	See Bill Text
22	6A	8	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	6B	3	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	6B	5	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	6B	7	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3013&year=2015&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3013%20intr.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&i=3013