Virginia House Bill 1068 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Left in Communications, Technology and Innovation
Pending: House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Broadband service; prescriptive easements. Provides that if a public service company has acquired a prescriptive easement pursuant to which it has the right to poles and wires to provide electric service, its rights under that prescriptive easement shall be deemed to include the right to grant to a provider of broadband or other telecommunications services the rights to attach its wires and facilities to the public service company's poles and to enter upon the right-of-way to install and maintain the wires and facilities without the approval of the owner of the servient tract of land.

Broadband service; prescriptive easements.

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]

2020-02-03 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-11	House	Left in Communications, Technology and Innovation
2020-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (10-Y 0-N)
2020-01-16	House	Assigned CT & I sub: Communications
2020-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
2020-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102905D

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+HB1068
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1068+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H2101V0015+HB1068