West Virginia Senate Bill 245 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on February 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-10 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to permit natural gas companies to enter private property without prior consent from the owner for the limited purposes of obtaining data to comply with regulatory requirements or to survey land for pipeline development. This bill also requires natural gas companies to request permission to inspect property and to provide owner notice of intent to enter property prior to entry. The bill further preempts entries authorized under this section from being deemed either a trespass or a taking.

Permitting natural gas companies enter private property without prior consent of owner for limited purposes

Sen. Craig Blair [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-10	Senate	To Judiciary
2017-02-10	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2017-02-10	Senate	To Judiciary
2017-02-10	Senate	Filed for introduction

SB192 (Similar To) 2017-03-17 - To House Judiciary
HB2688 (Similar To) 2017-02-23 - To House Energy

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	3b	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=245&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb245%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=245