BILL · 2005–06 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5456
SB 5456: Excavating near pipelines
Making it a crime to excavate without notification near a transmission pipeline.
Summary
- Any person who fails to notify the one-number locator service, as required under law, before excavating within 35 feet of a transmission pipeline is guilty of a gross misdemeanor if the pipeline is damaged. A new misdemeanor is created for excavating within 35 feet of the transmission pipeline without first calling the locator service.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedJan 25, 2005
- Out of committeeFeb 25, 2005
- Passed Senatestopped here
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Margarita Prentice (D-11)
- Introduced
- January 25, 2005 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 9, 2006
- Companion bill
- HB 1539
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
- Versions
- SB 5456, SSB 5456
AN ACT Relating to failure to notify the one-number locator service when excavating near a transmission pipeline;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Margarita Prentice (D-11)
4 co-sponsors (2 Democrats, 2 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5456)
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 5456)
- Senate Rules "X" file.
- Made eligible to be placed on second reading. (SSB 5456)
- Made eligible to be placed on second reading.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 5456)
- WEE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5456)
- WEE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- First reading, referred to Water, Energy & Environment.
SB 5456 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
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- SB 5456 (2017–18) Unpaid accounts
- SB 5456 (2015–16) Ticket sales over internet
- SB 5456 (2013–14) Detentions
- SB 5456 (2011–12) Death penalty elimination