Bill Text: VA HB340 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Electric utilities; underground transmission lines.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-13 - Left in Labor and Commerce [HB340 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HB340-Prefiled.html
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HOUSE BILL NO. 340
Offered January 10, 2024
Prefiled January 5, 2024
A BILL to provide that certain underground transmission lines
are in the public interest.
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Patron-- Thomas
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Committee Referral Pending
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. §1. The construction and reconstruction of any underground, in whole or in part, electrical transmission lines of at least 69 kilovolts and less than 500 kilovolts along a highway right-of-way under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation in Planning District 8 where a data center proposal is under construction in an area located within a half mile of a National Battlefield Park and within one mile of a state forest is in the public interest.
