Virginia Senate Bill 708

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 19 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-05 - Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N)
Pending: Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Pilot program for underground transmission lines; qualifying projects. Increases the maximum capacity of qualifying electrical transmission lines, for purposes of the pilot project for underground transmission lines, from 230 kilovolts to 500 kilovolts. The bill provides that the State Corporation Commission shall approve additional qualifying projects as part of the pilot program that traverse along highways in developed areas where the route of proposed transmission lines and towers traverse areas protected by a scenic easement, view shed easement, areas of registered historic designation, or areas of conservation easements. Under the bill, existing requirements for qualifying projects shall continue to apply to such new category of qualifying projects.

Underground transmission lines; qualifying projects, pilot program.

Sen. Russet Perry [D]

Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]

2024-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N)
2024-01-19	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2024-01-19	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 24105004D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB708
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB708+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB708F171+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S02V0051+SB0708